On Medicine (De Medicina), Vol. 2

poultices and plasters, II. 36, 38, and eye salves, II. 210, 214, 216.
Ammoniacum sal; see Sal.
Amomum; see Cardamomum.
Anastomotica; openers of pores, II. 6 note, 26.
Anesum; Pimpinella anisum, anise.
Aniseed (still a common flavouring) is indigestible as a food, I. 200 ff., 490; used against flatulence and as a diuretic, I. 206, 210, 340, 418.
Anethum; Anethum graveolens, dill.
Among foods, I. 200 ff., 208, 448, 490, 491; as a diuretic, I. 210, 488; as a snuff, I. 272.
Anodyna; Anodynes see Acopa, also Hyoscyamus, Mandragora, Papaver, Solanum.
(1) Prescriptions given as pills, II. 58; see also I. 211.
(2) Used topically, I. 458, also II. 56 note, 191.
Antherae; preparations from flower blossoms, II. 254 note, 258, 260, 264, 272.
Antidota; antidotes, II. 54, note, 56.
The word is not used when remedies against individual poisons are described, II. 122.
Antiseptics; essential oils from aromatic plants and trees; especially cedar, cinnamon, juniper, pine, thyme, used for their antiseptic qualities, II, xii.
Apium; Apium graveolens, celery or Petroselinum sativum, parsley.
As a diuretic, I. 210; see also I. 416, 418, 450, 491.
Apyron; see Sulphur.
Argemonia; Papaver argemone, prickly poppy.
The soothing mucilage of this contains a small
Argenti spuma; see Plumbum.