Chap. 83.] 
HIPPUEIS. 
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with vinegar. In cases of spasms and opisthotony, it is an 
excellent plan to rub the part affected with seed of the hype- 
ricon known as " caros/'^^ and to take the seed in drink. 
Phrynion,^^ it is said, will effect a cure even when the sinews 
have been severed, if applied instantaneously, bruised or 
chewed. For spasmodic affections, fits of trembling, and opis- 
thotony, root of alcima^^ is administered in hydromel ; used in 
this manner, it has a warming effect when the limbs are 
benumbed with cold. 
CHAP. 82. EEMEDTES FOE H^MOEEHAGE. 
The red seed of the plant called pseonia"^^ arrests haemorr- 
hage ; the root also is possessed of similar properties. But it 
is clymenus^^ that should be employed, when there are dis- 
charges of blood at the mouth or nostrils, from the bowels, or 
from the uterus. In such cases, lysimachia^^ also is taken in 
drink, applied topically, or introduced into the nostrils ; or 
else seed of plantago,^^ or cinquefoil, is taken in drink, or em- 
ployed in the form of a liniment. Hemlock seed is introduced 
into the nostrils, for discharges of blood there, or else it is 
pounded and applied in water ; aizoiim^ also, and root of as- 
tragalus.^^ Isehsemon^^ and achillea'^^ likewise arrest haemorr- 
hage. 
CHAP. 83. (13.) HIPPUEIS, OTHEEWISE CALLED EPHEDEON, 
ANABASIS, OE EQUISiETUM ; THEEE KINDS OF IT : EIGHTEEN 
EEMEDIES. 
Equisaetum, a plant called hippuris" by the Greeks, and 
which we have mentioned in terms of condemnation, when 
treating of meadow lands''^ — it being, in fact, a sort of hair of 
the earth, similar in appearance to horse-hair" — is used by 
runners for the purpose of diminishing"^* the spleen. For this 
«i See c. 53 of this Book. 62 gge B. xxv. c. 76. 
63 See Note 49 above. ^4 Our peony. See B. xxv. c. 10. 
65 See R xxv. c. 33. 66 gge B. xxv. c. 35. 
6" See B. xxv. c. 39. 68 g^e B. xxv. c. 102. 
69 See c. 29 of the present Book. '^^ See B. xxv. c. 45. 
''I See B. xxv. c. 19. 
In B. xviii. c. 67 ; where it is called " equissetis." M. Fraas identifies 
it with the Equisaetum limosum of Linnaeus. 
''^ Whence its name equisaetum." 
74 See B. xi. c. 30. 
