BOOK XX. xxi. 44-47 



XXI. Cut leek stops bleeding at the nose if the Leeks. 

 nostrils be plugged with leek pounded, or niixed with 

 gall-nut or mint ; fluxes also after miscarriage are 

 arrested by drinking the juice with wornan's milk. 

 It cures chronic cough, and aifections of the chest 

 and lungs. By an application of the leaves are 

 healed pimples, burns and epinyctis — so is called a 

 sore, also known as syce, in the corner of the eye 

 and perpetually running ; some give the same name 

 to Hvid pustules causing restlessness at night " — and 

 other sores by leeks pounded with honey ; the bites 

 of beasts are treated by leek in vinegar, as are those 

 of serpents and other poisonous creatures. Affections 

 of the ears, however, are treated by leeks and goats, 

 gall, or else leeks and mead in equal proportions. 

 With woman's milk leeks are used for singing in the 

 ears ; for headache the juice is poured into the 

 nostrils, or two tablespoons of juice with one of honey 

 are poured into the ears at bedtime. The juice also 

 is drunk with neat wine to counteract the bites of 

 serpents and of scorpions, and a draught can be taken 

 with half a sextarius of wine for lumbago. For 

 spitting of blood, moreover, for consumption, and 

 for chronic catarrhs the juice is beneficial, as is also 

 the leek by itself eaten as food ; for jaundice, dropsy 

 and kidney pains an acetabulum of the juice mixed 

 with barley-water. The same dose taken with 

 honey purges the womb. Leek moreover is eaten 

 to counteract the poisons of fungi ; it is applied to 

 wounds, is an aphrodisiac, quenches thirst, serves 

 as a pick-me-up after drunkenness, but is said to 

 dim the eye-sight, and to cause flatulences which 

 do no harm, however, to the stomach but relax 

 the bowels. Leeks impart briUiance to the voice. 



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