CHAP. 55.—THE CALLITHRIX: ONE REMEDY. THE PERPRESSA: ONE REMEDY. THE CHRYSANTHEMUM: ONE REMEDY. THE ANTHEMIS: ONE REMEDY.
Callithrix,[1269] beaten up with cummin seed, and administered in white wine, is useful also for diseases of the bladder. Leaves of vervain, boiled down to one third, or root of vervain, in warm honied wine, expel calculi of the bladder.
Perpressa,[1270] a plant which grows in the vicinity of Arretium and in Illyricum, is boiled down to one third in three heminæ of water, and the decoction taken in drink: the same too with trefoil,[1271] which is administered in wine; and the same with the chrysanthemum.[1272] The anthemis[1273] also is an expellent of calculi. It is a plant with five small leaves running from the root, two long stems, and a flower like a rose. The roots of it are pounded and administered alone, in the same way as raw laver.[1274]
CHAP. 56.—SILAUS: ONE REMEDY.
Silaus[1275] is a plant which grows in running streams with a gravelly bed. It bears some resemblance to parsley, and is a cubit in height. It is cooked in the same manner as the acid vegetables,[1276] and is of great utility for affections of the bladder. In cases where that organ is affected with eruptions,[1277] it is used in combination with root of panaces,[1278] a plant which is otherwise bad for the bladder. The erratic apple,[1279] too, is an expellent of calculi. For this purpose, a pound of the root is boiled down to one half in a congius of wine, and one hemina of the decoction is taken for three consecutive days, the remainder being taken in wine with sium.[1280] Sea-nettle[1281] is employed too for the same purpose, daucus,[1282] and seed of plantago in wine.
CHAP. 57.—THE PLANT OF FULVIUS.
The plant of Fulvius[1283] too—so called from the first discoverer of it, and well known[1284] to herbalists—bruised in wine, acts as a diuretic.
CHAP. 58.—REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE TESTES AND OF THE FUNDAMENT.
Scordion[1285] reduces swellings of the testes. Henbane is curative of diseases of the generative organs. Strangury is cured by juice of peucedanum,[1286] taken with honey; as also by the seed of that plant. Agaric is also used for the same purpose, taken in doses of three oboli in one cyathus of old wine; root of trefoil, in doses of two drachmæ in wine; and root or seed of daucus,[1287] in doses of one drachma. For the cure of sciatica, the seed and leaves of erythrodanum[1288] are used, pounded; panaces,[1289] taken in drink; polemonia,[1290] employed as a friction; and leaves of aristolochia,[1291] in the form of a decoction. Agaric, taken in doses of three oboli in one cyathus of old wine, is curative of affections of the tendon known as “platys”[1292] and of pains in the shoulders. Cinquefoil is either taken in drink or applied topically for the cure of sciatica; a decoction of scammony is used also, with barley meal; and the seed of either kind of hypericon[1293] is taken in wine.