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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…

The root is heating and a decoction of it (taken as a drink) causes an urge to urinate. It is good for pain of the rectum, chest and liver; and for griping, hernia and convulsions. It reduces the spleen, and it helps those sick with dripping mucus,…

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…

The root of this helps hernia, convulsions, old coughs, difficulty in breathing, and difficulty in urinating. It expels the menstrual flow, and taken as a drink with wine it is good for those poisoned by animal bites. The leaves are applied to help…

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…

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…

They are all warming and reduce the intensity of symptoms. They are suitable against coughs and reduce the intensity of thick mucus that is hard to get up. Seven teaspoonfuls of a decoction (taken as a drink in honey water) purge thick mucus and…

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…

Taken as a decoction, it is good for those who have coughs, paralysis, hernias, convulsions and intestinal pain, and it expels rectal worms. Taken as a drink with wine it is good for those who have defective kidneys and difficulty urinating. It is…