If the matter come from phlegm, let it be purged by agaric and turpeth, along with a little ginger, and give him a drachm or two with sweet-smelling wine. These are the compound things that purge phlegm: hiera picra Galeni, and hiera Logodion. If the matter come from melancholy, let it be purged with senna and polypody, and of the latter Avicenna says it rejoices the heart per accidens by drawing off melancholy321 from the brain, the heart and the whole body, but anise and cummin should be boiled therewith to overcome the flatulence. These are the compound things that purge it: diaboraginatum [...]322