The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)

by the Elder Pliny

CHAP. 52. (5.)—THE PALM WHICH PRODUCES MYROBALANUM: THREE REMEDIES.

Of the palm which produces myrobalanum,[3056] the most esteemed kind is that grown in Egypt;[3057] the dates of which, unlike those of the other kinds, are without stones. Used with astringent wine, they arrest[3058] diarrhœa and the catamenia, and promote the cicatrization of wounds.