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even when feverish, to drive out intestinal worms, 

 while in the case of children they are also applied 

 to the bowels, the patient fasting; another method 

 is to roast them, and to give them either in boiled 

 must as a draught or else in honey. Lupins increase 

 the appetite, and remove squeamishness. Their meal 

 kneaded with vinegar and applied in the bath removes 

 pimples and pruritus, and by itself dries up ulcers. 

 It heals bruises, and, with pearl barley, soothes 

 inflammations. Wild lupins ai-e more efficacious than 

 cultivated for weakness of the hips and loins. A 

 decoction of the same removes freckles and improves 

 the complexion of those who use it as a fomentation. 

 If however they are boiled down to the consistency 

 of honey, they cure even black eruptions and leprous 

 sores. An appHcation of cultivated kipins also causes 

 carbuncles to break ; boiled in vinegar thev reduce 

 or mature superficial abscesses and scrofulous 

 swellings, and restore to scars the original wliite of 

 the skin ; if however they are thoroughly boiled in 

 rain water, the decoction makes a detergent with 

 which it is good to foment gangrenes, eruptions of 

 rheum," and running ulcers ; and it is also good to 

 drink it for splenic aflfections and, with the addition 

 of honey, for retarded menstruation. Pounded raw 

 with dried fig they are applied in vinegar to the 

 spleen. The root too boiled in water is diuretic. 

 Lupins boiled with the herb chamaeleon cui-e sick 

 eattle, the water being strained off into their drink. 

 The itch on all quadrupeds is cured by hipins boiled 

 in lees ofolive oil, or by a mixture of the lees with a 

 decoction of hipins. The smoke of burnt lupins 

 kills gnats. 



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