ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IX. vin. 8-ix. 2 



they may die l within the year. These notions then 

 seem to be irrelevant, as has been said. There are 

 however no methods of root-cutting besides those 

 which we have mentioned. 



Of the medicinal -uses of divers parts of plants. 



IX. As was said, 2 of some plants the root, fruit and 

 juice are all serviceable, as of all-heal among others ; 

 of some the root and the juice, as of scammony 3 

 cyclamen thapsia and others, such as mandrake ; for 

 the leaf of this, they say, used with meal, is useful 

 for wounds, and the root for erysipelas, when scraped 

 and steeped in vinegar, and also for gout, for sleep- 

 lessness, and for love potions. It is administered in 

 wine or vinegar ; they cut little balls of it, as of 4 

 radishes, and making a string of them hang them up 

 in the smoke over must. 



5 Of hellebore both root and fruit are useful for 

 the same purposes, 6 if it is true, as is said, that 

 the people of Anticyra use the fruit as a purge ; 

 this fruit contains the w r ell-known 7 drug called 

 sesamodes. 



Various parts of all-heal are also useful, and not all 

 for the same purposes ; the fruit is used in cases of 

 miscarriage and for disorders of the bladder, while 

 the juice, 8 which is called khalbane, is used in cases 

 of miscarriage and also for sprains and such-like 

 troubles ; also for the ears, and to strengthen the 



5 Diosc. 4. 108, 109 and 162. 



6 ravTa conj. Sch. from G ; TO.VTO. U*M*Ald. 



7 I have inserted rbv. cf. 9. 14. 4 ; Plin. 22. 133 ; 25. 52 and 

 64 ; Diosc. I.e. The drug was actually called o-T?<ra,uoet8es or 

 a-Tjo-ajuoetSTjy. For the sense of TOVTOV cf. 3. 7. 3 ; 3. 8. 3 and reff. 



8 This seems to be a mistake, cf. 9. 7. 2 ; Diosc. 3. S3 ; 

 Plin. 12. 126. 



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