BOOK XXVI. XIX. ss-xx. 36 



ounce of Attic honey and taken daily in hot water, 

 and aristolochia or agaric in doses of three oboh taken 

 in hot water or ass's milk. Cissanthemus is given 

 in drink " for orthopnoea, for that and for asthma 

 hyssop, while for pains in the Hver, chest, and side, 

 if there is no fever, the juice of peucedanum. For 

 spitting of blood also agaric is of help ; a victoriatus 

 by weight is pounded and given in five cyathi of 

 honey wine. For this complaint amomum is equally 

 good. For liver complaints fresh teucria is specific, 

 taken in the proportion of four drachmae to one 

 hemina of vinegar and water, or betony, one drachma 

 to three cyathi of hot water : the same amount of 

 betony, in two cyathi of cold water, is given for heart 

 afFections. The juice of cinquefoil is a remedy for 

 affections of the Uver and lungs, for spitting of blood, 

 and for all internal blood impurities.'' Both kinds of 

 anagalHs are wonderfully good for hver complaints. 

 Those who have eaten the plant called capnos (smoke) 

 pass bile in their urine. Acoron is a cure for Uver 

 dLseases, and daucum for those of the chest and 

 hypochondria." 



XX. Ephedra, called by some anabasis, grows EpheUra. 

 generally in wind-swept regions, climbs trees and 

 hangs down from their branches. It has no leaves, 

 but numerous rush-Hke, jointed tufts, and a pale 

 root. For cough, asthma and coHc it is given 

 pounded in a dark-red, dry wine ; and it may be made 



former is right here. See my note on XXIII, 163 (vol. VI, 

 p. 524 note b). Littre translates as though intus were not 

 there, although it appears in his text. 



■^ This part of Phny is so confused, and remedies and 

 diseases are so jumbled together, that a marginal analysia 

 becomes difficult. The chief complaints considered are those 

 of the digestive organs. 



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