8 GALEN ON THE COMPOSITION OF MEDICINES

...the larynx should receive what flows into it by resisting the resulting cough. For by enduring so as not to cough, patients will allow some of the medicine to flow down into the larynx and the windpipe arteria: the trachea or "rough artery.". However, it is impossible for those treated in this way to have a clear voice without again using medicines that cleanse without irritation original: ἀδήκτως ῥύπτουσιν, literally "cleansing without biting.". Such medicines include bean soup, barley water ptisane: a medicinal porridge or decoction of barley., and roasted linseed. These substances hold a middle ground between medicines of moderate power and those that coat the passages original: ἐμπλαστικῶν, medicines that "plaster" or block the pores..

Stronger than these at cleansing are turpentine resin, frankincense, skimmed honey, and bitter almonds. Just as, in turn, there are others stronger than these: vetch flour, clary sage seed original: ὁρμίνου σπέρμα., iris root, and all-heal panakos: a medicinal plant root, often identified with Opopanax.. For all these treatments, soft and sweet wines are suitable, such as Cretan, Theraean, and Scybelite original: Σκυβελίτης. This refers to a specific wine, likely named for its place of origin, used for its sweetness and thickness..

In addition to these, there is something I do not know how it came to be neglected: the substance called "boiled wine" original: ἕψημα (hepsema), a syrup made by boiling down grape must. by the Greeks in our region of Asia. Those who follow the Attic style of speech Atticizers were scholars and writers who preferred the classical Athenian dialect of the 5th century BCE. call it siraeum, as do others who call a decoction of dried figs...