Goose grass is cold and is a weed.
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Water parsnip [morkrut] is a repast for a person. It does not benefit health, and it does not harm the person, but when eaten, it fills the stomach.
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Goose grass [ gensekrut] is cold and is a weed. If a person eats it, it does not benefit health, but it harms the person more.
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Flax [linsamo] is warm, etc. See section cxciv below concern-ing flaxseed where many thconcern-ings are written that are absent here.
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Chickweed [hunsdarm] is warm and is a weed. But if some per-son is injured in a fall, or if someone is struck with a cudgel so that the skin is bruised, let them cook chickweed in water, squeeze out the water, and place this warm over the place in-jured or wounded, and tie a piece of cloth over it. This will dis-pel the bile collected there.
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Black hellebore [nyesewurtz] is warm and dry. It has a little moisture and a certain greenness that is useful. Let whoever suffers from gout and also whoever has jaundice pound black hellebore, strain its juice through a piece of cloth, and add this juice to wine. If the person has gout, let them drink this often in this way, fasting. If they have jaundice, let them drink this often, eating. The person will be cured. But also, cook black hellebore in wine, with honey added, strain this through a piece of cloth, and drink it often after eating and when going to
bed at night. Let the person do this often, and he or she will be cured. Let them do this sweetly and softly, and it will heal the chest, it will purge the stomach, and it will lessen whatever is filthy and stinking inwardly in his or her body.
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The herb that is called goutweed [herba gicht] is very warm and has a certain greenness in it. Let whoever has stomach pain moderately pound this herb and its seed, cook it with wine and a little honey, strain it through a piece of cloth, and then drink it warm. Let whoever wishes to take a precaution so that the stomach does not become sick drink this same potion often and while it is cold; the stomach will remain healthy. But let whoever often suffers from gout pound the same herb with its seed, add bear fat, a third as much oil as the bear fat, and cook this in water and make an ointment. Let the person anoint the place where he or she suffers. It immediately penetrates the skin, and the person’s stormy period of gout will end.
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Vervain [ ysena] is more cold than warm. Let whoever suffers rotten flesh from ulcers or from worms cook vervain in water.
Then place a piece of linen cloth over the putrid sores or over the places made putrid by the worms. Express the water
mod-
erately from the vervain, and then place it moderately warm on top of the linen cloth placed over putrid flesh. After the ver-vain has dried out, again place some more cooked in the same way on top of the cloth. Do this until the putridness has been drawn out. But if someone’s throat swells up, let them cook some vervain moderately in water, place it moderately warm over the throat, and tie it with a piece of cloth. Do this until the tumor vanishes.
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Summer savory [satereia] is more warm than cold. Let a person who suffers from gout so that his or her limbs are always mov-ing pulverize summer savory, add pulverized cumin, a little less of sage than the cumin, and mix these powders together in hydromel. Let the person drink this often, eating, and they will get better.
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Arnica [wolfesgelegena] is very warm and has a poisonous heat in it. When a man or woman burns with desire, if that man or woman’s flesh is touched by the greenness of arnica, they will burn with love for whoever is afterward touched with the same herb. The person will be so incensed with love, almost infatu-ated, that he or she will become a fool.
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Indian chickweed [symes] is cold. If maggots or worms eat a person, let the person pulverize Indian chickweed and place this powder on the place of the wounds; the worms and mag-gots will die.
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Rush [ juncus] is neither rightly warm nor rightly cold, but is lukewarm. It is, therefore, not beneficial as a medicine.
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Meygelana [meygelana] is cold. It has a coldness like the earth when it brings forth flowers and fruit. If scrofula or a pustule or any other kind of ulcer in which there is poison develops on a person, let the person eat meygelana often, fasting, and these will disappear. But also let whoever has epilepsy eat meygelana often. When this person has already fallen on the ground from this disease, place this herb under the tongue. The person will suffer less and will stand up more quickly.
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Tormentil [dornella] is cold. Its coldness is good and healthy, and is beneficial against fevers that spring up from noxious