CHAP. 17.—THE BECHION, KNOWN ALSO AS SALVIA: FOUR REMEDIES.
There is another bechion[1085] also, known to some persons as “salvia,”[1086] and bearing a strong resemblance to verbascum. This plant is triturated, and the juice strained off and taken warm for cough and for pains in the side: it is considered very beneficial also for the stings of scorpions and sea-dragons.[1087] It is a good plan, too, to rub the body with this juice, mixed with oil, as a preservative against the stings of serpents. A bunch of hyssop is sometimes boiled down with a quarter of a pound of honey, for the cure of cough.