Herbal & Animal Medicines — Medieval Manuscript

It grows everywhere in cultivated places and mounds; gather it in the summer time.
i For those who vomit blood: take the juice of the herb perspinaca in excellent wine, austere, heated without smoke, and let them drink it while fasting for nine days; I have experienced a wonderful result.
ii For pain in the side: frequently anoint with the juice of the herb proserpinace mixed with rose oil; it takes away the pain.
iii For painful, swollen breasts that have milk, and for tumor: take the herb perspinaca, mix it with butter, and apply it; it wonderfully disperses the pain and takes away the tumor.
iiii For eyes with tearing or color: take the herb perspinaca, ground and applied. Go to the herb before sunrise or after sunset and circumscribe it with a gold ring, and say that you are taking it as a remedy for the eyes, and go wherever you wish. Three days before sunrise, take it and carry it around your neck; it will be beneficial.
v For pain in the ears: the juice of the herb perspinaca dropped into the ears repeatedly takes away the pain wonderfully; it is proven, and it also heals ulcers of the ears.
vi For those with dysentery: the juice of the herb perspinaca given in warm water as a drink, in whatever amount seems right to you, and they will be made healthy.

To be painted: the herb aristologia rotunda round birthwort.

Others amriza.
Others trurneninos.
Others elesites.
Others dardano.
Others isoprep.
Others melocaryonis.
Others epetia.
Others pyrionios.
Others camelos.
Italians, oietes.
Others terrimasti.
Dacians, ablanthui rustiai.

A botanical illustration of a plant with a central vertical stalk bearing green lanceolate leaves, terminating in a large, dark, spherical bulbous root with several thin roots extending from the base.

It grows in mountainous and solid, rare places.
i For the power of poison: the herb aristologia ground or in a potion with pure wine, given, helps against poison.
ii For the most acute fevers: fumigate with the herb aristologia with incense; it puts the face to flight and demons.
iii For fistulas: the root of the herb aristologia, purified, leads to health; also, without it, I do nothing with gold.
iiii For all cold: the herb aristologia in oil used until it is a heating agent; have it with pork grease.

An illustration of a slender snake or serpent crawling to the left. The body is dark with a distinct scale-like pattern and a pale underbelly; its mouth is open with a red tongue visible.

v If anyone is insanely convulsed, fumigate with the herb aristologia; then it will cause cheerfulness.
vi Aristologia with cypero galingale and the seed of dracontes applied with honey provides a cure.

To be painted: the herb nasturtium cress.

Others onocordonion.
Others cardamina.
Others Iberos.
Egyptians, anacordamum.
Italians, semen nasturtii.
For cleansing the head: apply the herb nasturtii to the nostrils; it cleanses the head. This nasturtii is not sown, but grows by itself around hedges and walls.

A botanical illustration of a plant with several stems branching from a central point, bearing serrated green leaves. The plant has a thick, brown, tapering root system with smaller root hairs.