Kalamos Euodes

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Title

Kalamos Euodes

Description

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 flow taken as a drink and applied. It helps coughs inhaled either alone or with resin termininthos. It is boiled for women's baths and infusions, and mixed with warm compresses and perfumes to make them smell sweeter.

Source

De Materia Medica

Files

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Citation

“Kalamos Euodes,” Modern Vienna Dioscorides, accessed September 18, 2024, https://modernviennadioscorides.omahahistories.net/items/show/17.