Herbal & Animal Medicines — Medieval Manuscript

η For scurfy eruptions of the head: boil the herb nasturciā with its seed mixed with goose fat, then in washings; it will eject the condition from the head.
ii For indigestion: give the herb nasturciā or pullegiū pennyroyal boiled in water to drink; it repairs and disperses indigestion.
iii For swellings: place the herb nasturciā with poultice over the swellings, with a cabbage leaf placed on top.
u For healing boils: the herb nasturciā with leaven is effective.
To be painted: the herb ierobulbum.
An illustration of the plant Ierobulbum, featuring a large, round brown bulbous root from which emerge several long, thick, dark green leaves tapering to points.
i It grows everywhere around hedges and dirty places. For pain in the joints: take the root of ierobulbum, two pounds of oil, mix them with all; it will take away the pain of the aged.
u For freckles on the face: if a woman has them, the root of the herb ierobulbum mixed with lupine meal, if the woman washes her freckled face with it, it cleanses it immediately.
To be painted: the herb apollinaris.
The Greeks call it diete.
Others strignomanicon.
Others corigenon.
Others cecabon.
& Italians, apollinaris.
Dacians, the herb nancia.
It is said that Apollo discovered this herb and gave it to Clepio Asclepius, from which he imposed upon it the name apollinaris.
An illustration of the plant Apollinaris, showing a round brown root bulb with five upright green stems ending in elongated white flowering spikes or seed heads.
i For wounds: the herb apollinaris ground with old lard without salt, and one cup of old wine without smoke, and...
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mix one pound together, and make it like a poultice for wounds.
To be painted: the herb cameleon.
Others pantemion.
Others talsocalis.
Others apricos.
Others servententes.
Others dioscofolon.
& Italians, beneolentem.
Others olitica.
Others nympheos.
Others elioneptores.
Others superbam.
Egyptians, thenuotin.
Gauls, usludio.
Campanians, anolaat.
Tuscans, biana.
Dacians, molusti.
An illustration of the plant Cameleon, depicting a tall, branching plant with thin green stems and small yellow star-shaped flowers at the tips, anchored by a brownish, spreading root system.
For inflammation or pain of the eyes: if anyone takes the herb cameleon before sunrise, and applies it to the cloudiness of the eyes, it will clear it. Carry that herb, and make an oil of cameleon from that herb.
To be painted: the herb camedreos germander.
Others dysis.
Others tiberion.
Others trivago.
Others dustiris.
Others camidros.
Others trimagme.
It grows in mountainous and solid places.
An illustration of the plant Camedreos, showing a low-lying plant with a single brown stem branching into several stalks with small, dark green, heart-shaped or trifoliate leaves.
i For convulsions: the herb camedreos, from wood to wood a phrase denoting application or transference, I bring it and give it as a drink; it claims to heal those already broken. sanare affignat claims to heal.