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MOLON OE STllON. 
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centaury also, gentian taken in water, and plantago, either 
eaten with the food, or mixed with lentils or a pottage of 
alica."^^ Betony, which is in general prejudicial to the stomach, 
is remedial for some stomachic affections, taken in drink or 
chewed, the leaves being used for the purpose. In a similar 
manner too, aristolochia^^ is taken in drink, or dried agaric is 
chewed, a draught of undiluted wine being taken every now 
and then. I^ymphsea heraclia^^ is also applied topically in 
these cases, and juice of peucedanum.^^ For burning pains in 
the stomach psyllion^^ is applied, or else cotyledon^^ beaten up 
with polenta, or aizoiim.^^ 
CHAP. 19. MOLON OE SYRON, AMOMTJM, 
Molon^^ is a plant with a striated stem, a soft diminutive 
leaf, and a root four fingers in length, at the extremity of 
which there is a head like that of garlic ; by some persons it 
is known as syron." Taken in wine, it is curative of affec- 
tions of the stomach, and of hardness of breathing. For similar 
purposes ^he greater centaury is used, in an electuary ; juice 
also of plantago, or else the plant itself, eaten with the food ; 
pounded betony, in the proportion of one pound to half an 
ounce of Attic honey, taken daily in warm water ; and aristo- 
lochia^"^ or agaric, taken in doses of three oboli; in warm water 
or asses' milk. 
For hardness of breathing an infusion of cissanthemos^® is 
taken in drink, and for the same complaint, as also for asthma, 
hyssop. For pains in the liver, chest, and side, if unattended 
with fever, juice of peucedanum is used. For spitting of 
blood agaric is employed, in doses of one victoriatus,^^ bruised 
and administered in five cyathi of honied wine : amomum,^® 
too, is equally useful for that purpose. For liver diseases in 
See E. xviii. c. 29. Fee observes that none r of these prescriptions 
would be countenanced at the present day. 
^0 See B. XXV. c. 54. si gee B. xxv. c. 37. 
^2 See B. xxv. c. 70. gee B. xxv. c. 90. 
8* See B. xxv. c. 101. 85 gee B. xxv. c. 102. 
Possibly the same plant as the Moly of B. xxv. c. 8. If so, as 
Fee says, it would appear to belong to the genus Allium, or garlic. 
87 See B. xxv. c. 84. See B. xxv. c. 68. 
89 See Introduction to Vol. III. 
^ See B. xii. c. 28. Fee says that none of these so-called remedies 
would now be recognised. 
