CHAP. 81. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE SINEWS AND JOINTS.
For diseases of the sinews and joints, plantago,[1468] beaten up with salt, is a very useful remedy, or else argemonia,[1469] pounded with honey. Patients affected with spasms or tetanus are rubbed with juice of peucedanum.[1470] For indurations of the sinews, juice of ægilops[1471] is employed, and for pains in those parts of the body erigeron[1472] or epithymum,[1473] used as a liniment, with vinegar. In cases of spasms and opisthotony, it is an excellent plan to rub the part affected with seed of the hypericon known as “caros,”[1474] and to take the seed in drink. Phrynion,[1475] 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 opisthotony, root of alcima[1476] is administered in hydromel; used in this manner, if has a warming effect when the limbs are benumbed with cold.