Pedanius Dioscorides

Pedanius Dioscorides

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Portrait of Pedanius Dioscorides Pedanius Dioscorides De Materia Medica — Book I (c/40)

All resin is softening, warming, circulating, cleansing, serving for cough and tuberculosis as a "licking material" by itself or with honey, it is also an expectorant. Further it is diuretic and thickening and softens the insides. Additionally it serves to glue together the hair on the eyelids and with verdigris, copper vitriol and natron against leprosy, with honey and oil against purulent ears and against itching of the genitalia. It is also mixed into plasters, poultices, and salves.
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Portrait of Pedanius Dioscorides Pedanius Dioscorides De Materia Medica — Book I (c/40)

It is also mixed with salves, plasters, and antidotes. And in general the balsam juice has the strongest effect, next the fruit, and the wood is weakest. The fruit, drunk, is for those a good material, who suffer from side stitches, pneumonia, cough, lumbar arthritis, epilepsy, dizziness, shortness of breath, colic, retention of urine, those who have suffered a poisonous animal bite; it is also suitable for fumigation for women, and in the decoction for the sitz-bath it opens the cervix in that it draws moisture into itself. The wood has the same power as the fruit, only weaker.
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