Chap. 83.] HIPPUEIS. 203 



with vinegar. In cases of spasms and opisthotony, it is an 

 excellent plan to rub the part affected with seed of the hype- 

 ricon known as " caros," 61 and to take the seed in drink. 

 Phrynion, 62 it is said, will effect a cure even when the sinews 

 have been severed, if applied instantaneously, bruised or 

 chewed. For spasmodic affections, fits of trembling, and opis- 

 thotony, root of alcima 63 is administered in hydromel ; used in 

 this manner, it has a warming effect when the limbs are 

 benumbed with cold. 



CHAP. 82. REMEDIES FOR HAEMORRHAGE. 



The red seed of the plant called " paeonia" 64 arrests haemorr- 

 hage ; the root also is possessed of similar properties. But it 

 is clyinenus 65 that should be employed, when there are dis- 

 charges of blood at the mouth or nostrils, from the bowels, or 

 from the uterus. In such cases, lysimachia 66 also is taken in 

 drink, applied topically, or introduced into the nostrils ; or 

 else seed of plantago, 67 or cinquefoil, is taken in drink, or em- 

 ployed in the form of a liniment. Hemlock seed is introduced 

 into the nostrils, for discharges of blood there, or else it is 

 pounded and applied in water ; aizoum 68 also, and root of as- 

 tragalus. 69 Isehsemon 70 and achillea 71 likewise arrest haemorr- 

 hage. 



CHAP. 83. (13.) HIPPURIS, OTHERWISE CALLED EPHEDRON, 



ANABASIS, OR EQTJIS^ETUM ; THREE KINDS OF IT I EIGHTEEN 

 REMEDIES. 



Equisaetum, a plant called " hippuris" by the Greeks, and 

 which we have mentioned in terms of condemnation, when 

 treating of meadow lands 72 it being, in fact, a sort of hair of 

 the earth, similar in appearance to horse- hair 78 is used by 

 runners for the purpose of diminishing 74 the spleen. For this 



61 See c. 53 of this Book. 62 See B. xxv. c. 76. 



63 See Note 49 above. 64 Our peony. See B. XXY. c. 10. 



65 See B. xxv. c. 33. 66 See B. xxv. c. 35. 



67 See B. xxv. c. 39. m See B. xxv. c. 102. 



69 See c. 29 of the present Book. 70 See B. xxv. c. 45. 



71 See B. xxv. c. 19. 



72 In B. xviii. c. 67 ; where it is called " equissetis." M. Fraas identifies 

 it with the Equisaetum limosum of Linnaeus. 



73 Whence its name " equisaetum." 

 7* See B. xi. c. 30. 



