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It is also used for indigestion and abdominal fluxes original: "rheumata"; referring to watery discharges or diarrhea, as well as for glaucous spots original: "glaukomata"; in antiquity, this referred to a clouding or opacity of the lens or eye rather than the modern definition of high ocular pressure in the eyes.
The girdle or gnat The OCR "zone" or "konops" is unusual here; traditionally, this plant is named after the swallow (chelidon) because it was believed that swallows used the sap to heal their young's eyes. The juice healing properties of this, when mixed with honey and boiled down in a bronze vessel, is effective against obscurations dimness of vision? sharpness of sight of the eyes.
The juice is extracted from the root, the leaves, and the fruit at the beginning of spring. It is then dried in the shade and stored away. The root, when drunk with anise and white wine, treats those suffering from jaundice jaundice. When applied as a poultice with wine, it treats herpes likely referring to shingles or spreading skin rashes herpes. Taken with wine, it is beneficial for dysentery and melancholy melancholy. It also painfully cleanses ulcers in the mouth, fistulas, and cancerous growths original: "karkinomata"; generally referring to any malignant or eating sore. This herb grows in damp places
In the left margin, a human figure rendered in reddish-brown tones stands next to a tall, branching plant. The figure appears to be a male herbalist or "root-cutter" (rhizotomist), reaching toward the foliage of the plant.
near the southern sea, in somewhat dry and rocky? areas...
Celandine original Arabic: "Mamiran"
Another variety of the small kind original Arabic: "Naw' akhar min al-saghir"
An illustration of a plant with several long, thin stems bearing rounded, green, heart-shaped leaves. At the base is a large, fleshy, brownish taproot resembling a cluster of tubers, with smaller fibrous roots attached.
It grows in damp places and near streams. It has leaves similar to ivy, but softer and smaller. It bears stalks that are thin and somewhat long, upon which are golden flowers. The root consists of many thousands of kernel-like original: "pyrenoeides"; these small tubers led to the plant's common name "pilewort" as they were thought to resemble hemorrhoids heads in its shape.
Lesser Celandine original Latin: "chelidoni amos minor"
It has an astringent taste and is useful for many things. Its property is caustic. snaketail When the leaves are applied, they cleanse? pichirouo the surface... nails...