Chap, 110.] 
TELEPHION. 
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wMeh, in fact, it owes its name : it grows in localities of a 
stony nature, or covered with humus. Its medicinal properties 
are warming and resolvent. 
The leaves and root are used as a diuretic and as an emmen- 
agogue ; the seed arrests diarrhoea; and the root, applied topi- 
cally, disperses abscesses and suppurations, provided they are 
not inveterate, and reduces indurated tumours. It is useful, 
also, for injuries inflicted by the phalangium and by serpents, 
taken in wine, with the addition of cachrys,^^ polium,^ or me- 
lissophyllum the dose, however, must be taken a little at a 
time only, for otherwise it acts as an emetic, a reason for which 
it is sometimes administered with rue. The seed or root is 
curative of cough, hardness of breathing, and diseases of the 
thoracic organs, spleen, kidneys, and bladder ; the root, too, is 
used for ruptures and convulsions. This plant facilitates 
delivery, and brings away the afterbirth ; it is also given, in 
combination with crethmos,^® in wine, for sciatica. It acts as a 
sudorific and carminative, for which reason it is used to disperse 
flatulency of the stomach ; it promotes, also, the cicatrization 
of wounds. 
A juice is extracted from the root, which is very useful for 
female complaints, and for affections of the thoracic organs 
and viscera, possessing, as it does, certain calorific, digestive, 
and detergent properties. The seed, in particulai?^ is given in 
drink for dropsy, external applications being made of the 
juice, and emollient poultices applied of the dried rind of the 
root. It is used, also, as a seasoning for food, boiled meat in 
particular, with the addition of honied wine, oil, and garum.^'-* 
Sinon,^ a plant with a flavour very like that of pepper, pro- 
motes the digestion, and is highly efficacious for pains in the 
stomach. 
CHAP. 110. — telephion: fottk remedies. 
Telephion^ resembles purslain in the stem and leaves. From 
95 See B. xxiv. c. 60. gee B. xxi. c. 21. 
97 See B. xxi. c. 86. 98 gge B. xxvi. c. 60. 
99 *< Fish-sauce." See B. ix. c. 30, and B. xxxi. c. 43. 
^ Possibly the same plant as the Sison of Dioscorides, identified with 
the Sison amomum of Linnseus, Field hone-wort, or stone-parsley. 
2 Identified by F6e with the Sedum Telephium of Linnaeus, the Or- 
pine or livelong ; by Desfontaines with the Sedum anacampseros, the Ever- 
