Tacuinum Sanitatis
f. 29v, Sweet flag
Voltar
Sweet flag. Nature: hot in the third degree, dry in the second. Optimum: the thickest part. Benefit: good for veins, sciatica, it perfumes the mouth, strengthens for cold stomachs, increases intercourse. Harm: dangerous for the heart. Remedy for harm: with fatty foods. Effects: sharp humour. Advisable for cold and wet [temperaments], the elderly, in winter, in all regions.
Galenga Complectio calida in 3º sicca in 2º Electio grossum ex eo Iuuamentum confert uene sciatice oris odorem bonum Confortat stomachum frigidum auget coytum Nocumentum nocet cordi Remotio nocumenti cum ferculis unctuosis Quid generat humorem acutum Conuenit frigidis et humidis senibus hyeme omnibus regionibus.
f. 29v, Sweet flag
Sweet flag. Nature: hot in the third degree, dry in the second. Optimum: the thickest part. Benefit: good for veins, sciatica, it perfumes the mouth, strengthens for cold stomachs, increases intercourse. Harm: dangerous for the heart. Remedy for harm: with fatty foods. Effects: sharp humour. Advisable for cold and wet [temperaments], the elderly, in winter, in all regions.
Galenga Complectio calida in 3º sicca in 2º Electio grossum ex eo Iuuamentum confert uene sciatice oris odorem bonum Confortat stomachum frigidum auget coytum Nocumentum nocet cordi Remotio nocumenti cum ferculis unctuosis Quid generat humorem acutum Conuenit frigidis et humidis senibus hyeme omnibus regionibus.