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When it is chewed and a decoction of it is gargled up and down in the mouth it causes sweet breath. The powder sprinkled on the whole body serves to deodorise it. It is used in perfumes. One teaspoonful of the roots (taken in a drink) lessens moist…

Used either hot or cold it is good in decoctions made for all those disorders requiring bathing around the vulva. It is mixed with ointments made for suppositories, with other ointments for the astringent quality in it, for the preparation of…

As a result, boiled in wine and gargled, it is good for an ulcerated mouth and gangrenous ulceration in the genitals. It is infused for unclean discharges and fetid nasal discharges; and put into a pessary, it is an abortifacient. A decoction stops…

Generally the juice of the balsamum has the most strength, next to that the fruit, but the wood has the least strength of all. It expels the menstrual flow and the afterbirth, is an abortifacient, and rubbed on dissolves chills and the filthy matter…

Taken as a drink it is able to induce the movement of urine. As a result it is good for edema, defective kidneys, slow and painful urination and hernias, boiled either with grapes or seeds of apium and taken as a drink. It draws out the menstrual…

It is diuretic, bringing down the menstrual flow, and dissolving gaseousness. The flowers of it used in drink are good for bloody vomiting and a painful stomach, as well as the lungs, liver and kidneys. The root is more is given for a squeamish…

It is warming and diuretic, expels the menstrual flow, and is good for diseases of the uterus applied in suppositories or as warm packs. Two ounces ,taken in a drink, helps someone bitten by a viper, chest conditions and convulsions. It is given for…

It causes sleep and relieves pain applied as a poultice to the forehead. It ripens and dissolves inflammation and scalded sores of the head. It is also good for those stricken by scorpions applied as a poultice with basil. It helps gout, and it helps…

It draws out the menstrual flow and is an abortifacient, taken as a drink with myrrh or else applied. It is also good against beasts that put out their poison. It cleans away, heats and thins pus that darkens the pupils, and is diuretic. Rubbed on…

It is fit for eye medicines that are made for clearing the sight, and for warm compresses. It takes away freckles applied with honey, and encourages the menstrual flow. Taken as a drink it helps those bitten by snakes. It is good too taken as a drink…