For the cure of dropsy, tithymalos characias[1] is employed; panaces[2] also; plantago,[3] used as a diet, dry bread being eaten first, without any drink; betony, taken in doses of two drachme in two cyathi of ordinary wine or honied wine; agaric or seed of lonchitis,[4] in doses of two spoonfuls, in water; psyllion,[5] taken in wine; juice of either anagallis;[6] root of cotyledon[7] in honied wine; root of ebulum,[8] fresh gathered, with the mould shaken off, but not washed in water, a pinch in two fingers being taken in one hemina of old wine mulled; root of trefoil, taken in doses of two drachmæ in wine; the tithymalos[9] known as "platyphyllos;" seed of the hypericon,[10] otherwise known as "caros;" the plant called "acte"—the same thing as ebulum[11] according to some—the root of it being pounded in three cyathi of wine, if there are no symptoms of fever, or the seed of it being administered in red wine; a good handful of vervain also, boiled down in water to one half. But of all the remedies for this disease, juice of chamæacte[12] is looked upon as by far the most efficacious.

Morbid or pituitous eruptions are cured by the agency of plantago, or else root of cyclaminos[13] with honey. Leaves of ebulum,[14] bruised in old wine and applied topically, are curative of the disease called "boa," which makes its appearance in the form of red pimples. Juice of strychnos,[15] applied as a liniment, is curative of prurigo.