BOOK XX. Lxix. 178-LXX. i<Si 



called onitis, is more useful for drinking. All kinds 

 are used to keep away serpents, are given to eat 

 boiled to those who have been bitten, are diuretic 

 when taken in drink as above, cure with the root of 

 all-heal ruptures and convulsions, dropsy with fig or 

 with hyssop boiled down to one sixth in doses of one 

 acetabuhim, hkewise itch, prurigo and psoriasis, if 

 given on going down to the bath. Its juice, with 

 woman's milk, is poured into the ears. It cures the 

 tonsils also and uvula, as well as sores on the head. 

 Boiled, and taken in wine with ashes it neutraHzes 

 the poison of opium and gypsum. A dose of one 

 acetabulum loosens the bowels ; it is appHed to 

 bruises, and also for tooth-ache. imparting whiteness 

 to the teeth when used as a dentifrice with honey 

 and soda. It checks bleeding at the nose. For 

 parotid tumours it is boiled down with barley meal, 

 for a rough trachea pounded with gall-nut and honey, 

 and its leaves with honey and salt are good for the 

 spleen. Boiled with vinegar and salt, and taken in 

 small doses it loosens thick, black phlegm. Beaten 

 up with oil it is poured into the nostrils for jaundice. 

 Tired bodies are rubbed with it, care being taken not 

 to touch the abdomen. With pitch it cures epinyctis ; 

 with a roasted fig it brings boils to a head. It is 

 good for scrofulous swelHngs if appUed with oil, 

 vinegar and barley meal, if with fig, for pains in the 

 side, pounded and apphed in vinegar for fluxes of 

 blood from the genitals, and also for bringing away 

 more thoroughly the after-birth. 



LXX. Dittander (pepperwort) is considered to be DUtander. 

 one of the caustic plants. So it clears the complexion, 

 but produces sores on the skin, which, however, 

 are easily cured with wax and rose oiL Thus used, 



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