Silaus[1275] is a plant which grows in running streams with a gravelly bed. It bears some resemblance to parsley, and is a cubit in height. It is cooked in the same manner as the acid vegetables,[1276] and is of great utility for affections of the bladder. In cases where that organ is affected with eruptions,[1277] it is used in combination with root of panaces,[1278] a plant which is otherwise bad for the bladder. The erratic apple,[1279] too, is an expellent of calculi. For this purpose, a pound of the root is boiled down to one half in a congius of wine, and one hemina of the decoction is taken for three consecutive days, the remainder being taken in wine with sium.[1280] Sea-nettle[1281] is employed too for the same purpose, daucus,[1282] and seed of plantago in wine. CHAP. 57.—THE PLANT OF FULVIUS. The plant of Fulvius[1283] too—so called from the first discoverer of it, and well known[1284] to herbalists—bruised in wine, acts as a diuretic. CHAP. 58.—REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE TESTES AND OF THE FUNDAMENT. Scordion[1285] reduces swellings of the testes. Henbane is curative of diseases of the generative organs. Strangury is cured by juice of peucedanum,[1286] taken with honey; as also by the seed of that plant. Agaric is also used for the same purpose, taken in doses of three oboli in one cyathus of old wine; root of trefoil, in doses of two drachmæ in wine; and root or seed of daucus,[1287] in doses of one drachma. For the cure of sciatica, the seed and leaves of erythrodanum[1288] are used, pounded; panaces,[1289] taken in drink; polemonia,[1290] employed as a friction; and leaves of aristolochia,[1291] in the form of a decoction. Agaric, taken in doses of three oboli in one cyathus of old wine, is curative of affections of the tendon known as “platys”[1292] and of pains in the shoulders. Cinquefoil is either taken in drink or applied topically for the cure of sciatica; a decoction of scammony is used also, with barley meal; and the seed of either kind of hypericon[1293] is taken in wine. For diseases of the fundament and for excoriations plantago is remarkably efficacious; for condylomata, cinquefoil; and for procidence of the rectum, root of cyclaminos,[1294] applied in vinegar. The blue anagallis[1295] reduces procidence of the rectum, while, on the contrary, that with a red flower has a tendency to bear it down. Cotyledon[1296] is a marvellous cure for condylomatous affections and piles; and root of acoron,[1297] boiled in wine and beaten up, is a good application for swelling of the testes. According to what Cato[1298] says, those who carry about them Pontic[1299] wormwood, will never experience chafing between the thighs. (9.) Some persons add pennyroyal to the number of these plants: gathered fasting, they say, and attached to the hinder part of the body, it will be an effectual preservative against all pains in the groin, and will allay them in cases where they already exist. CHAP. 59.—INGUINALIS OR ARGEMO.