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the trachea and stomach, and acts astringently upon the bowels. 
It is eaten also by beasts of burden, but when wanted for 
remedial purposes, four drachmae are sufficient. 
The black seed is useful as a preventive of night-mare,^^ 
being taken in wine, in number above stated : it is very good, 
too, to eat this seed, and to apply it externally, for gnawing pains 
of the stomach. Suppurations are also dispersed, when recent, 
with the black seed, and when of long standing, with the red : 
both kinds are very useful, too, for wounds inflicted by ser- 
pents, and in cases where children are troubled with calculi, 
being employed at the crisis when strangury first makes its 
appearance. 
CHAP. 61. GI^^APHALIUM OE CHAM^ZELON : SIX EEMEBIES. 
Gnaphalium^''' is called chamsezelon" by some : its white^ 
soft, leaves are used as flock, and, indeed, there is no per- 
ceptible diflerence. This plant is administered in astringent 
wine, for dysentery : it arrests looseness of the bowels and 
the catamenia, and is used as an injection for tenesmus. It is 
employed topically for putrid sores. 
CHAP. 62. THE GALLIDEAGA : ONE EEMEDT. 
Xenocrates gives the name of gallidraga" to a plant 
which resembles the leucacanthus,^^ and grows in the marshes. 
It is a prickly plant, with a tall, ferulaceous stem, surmounted 
with a head somewhat similar to an egg in appearance. Vhen 
this head is growing, in summer, small worms, he says, are 
generated, which are put away in a box for keeping, and are 
attached as an amulet, with bread, to the arm on the side on 
which tooth-ache is felt ; indeed it is quite wonderful, he says, 
how soon the pain is removed. These worms, however, are of 
no use after the end of a year, or in cases where they have been 
allowed to touch the ground. 
Suppressionibus nocturnis." 
^"^ Sprengel identifies it with the Santolina maritima. Sea cudwort or 
cotton- weed. Fee considers its identification as doubtful. 
Identified by Hardouin and Desfontaines with the Dipsacus pilosus of 
Linnaeus, the Shepherd's rod, or small white teasel. Fee is doubtful ou 
the subject. 
«9 See B. xxii. c. 18. gee B. xxv. c. 28. 
