40 ASTER HIsTory 
Dioscoridi aster ardenti stomacho ... illitus confert.—Rue/, 
1536. 
Leaves of purple violet [meaning aster?] are a remedy, 
stomacho ardenti per se et cum polenta imponuntur.—Ruwe/, 
Aestuanti stomacho prodesse Asterem.—Dodoens. 
It is very good against the overmuch heat and burning of the 
stomake ; being laid to outwardly upon the same.—Zyte, 1595. 
It helpeth an hot stomache.—Parkinson, 1640. 
ASTER USED FOR THE Eyes 
Inflammations of the eyes, styes, etc., are cured by Aster; 
Lochs 02... dgbahnadr cheypovds, D. (interpolation, Sprengel). 
The inflammation in the eye called argemo * was cured by the 
plant argemon, Ruel; see infra, under Pliny and under argemon. 
Aster cures “ epiphoras oculorum”; purple violet cures ‘“‘ocu- 
lorum inflammationes.”’—Rzel. 
For a sty t+ on the eye, use Uva lupina, or Aster.—Bock. 
Aster helpeth and swageth the rednesse and inflammation of 
the eies.—Lyte ; so Parkinson. 
Aster Atticus was formerly employed in diseases of the eye. 
—Foster, 1890. 
ASTER UsEs “AD INGUEN”’ AND FOR ULCERS 
Lor Inguinal Tumors.—Aster is a remedy for buboes, ’Qyedst 
zat ou8avag, D. (interpolation, Sprengel). 
Aster is of efficacy for tumors or inflammations in the groin. 
‘Aopadfe de ... zpd¢ Bovsdvev gisypovds, D. (genuine fide Spren- 
gel). 
Leaves of purple-violet [confused with Aster] for vulvae pro- 
cidentias, D. Exporista. 
Aster... inguinum presantaneum remedium est, Pliny. 
Inguinaria, or Argemon [is among remedies for tumors], 
Pliny. 
Cb a ee 
Zap Bobuoc) Xapoundov (very valuable medicine it is, a flower, ground-apple or low 
growing it would mean, and has a very nice smell [chamomile]), pyzvOvia, xoruhbert, 
( Gnaphalium Stoechas 1.) aobddaxrpoc, (a tree with very tiny leaves and long flowers 
that are yellow [Cytisus lanigerus DC.?]) and Tptavhiov.’’ Attica, Ig0l. 
* A small white-centered ulcer on the eye, first mentioned by Sophilus ? , for which 
Pliny and others prescribed the plant argemon, 7. ¢., Aster Atticus. 
} Cratevas recommended for this his plant dcapov.—Wellmann, Krateuas, 6. 
