1. Aron barba, iarus, pes uituli, i.e. the three names of the cuckoo-pint, and it is clear, according to Rhases165 in his book Colliget, that the herb is hot and dry in the third degree, and that it has the laxative, attenuating and dissolving virtues in its root. And it serves well to make fine powder of this herb, together with pig lard, and if a poultice of it be put on the cold imposthumes it will dissolve and attenuate and mature them. Item, take the same herb, and as much of mullein, put them in a new little bag of linen, boil well in water, place hot on the anus, and it will be helpful in the flux called haemorrhoids. Item, make a fine powder of the roots of this herb and put it in the wounds in which there is proud flesh. Item, take the roots of the same herb, dry them, make powder of them, mix them with rose water, and put them on the face and it will takeaway its lumps and freckles and give it a bright, clear colour. Platearius says that this herb has four virtues, the dissolving, the consuming, the laxative and the attenuating, and for that reason it is ordered in the case of imposthumes of the ears to boil this herb in wine, oil and pig lard, to put cumin powder in it, and to apply it as a poultice to the ears, and it will be helpful in disease of the ears. It is appropriate to give this herb for the shortness of breath called asthma. Pound this herb, boil it in bear grease or in old lard of boar, and strain it, and rub it on the chest and the flanks, and it will open up the breathing and soften up the chest. Item, place the juice of this herb in the vagina, as a pessary is applied,
Of cuckoo-pint
of juice of unripe sloes
of wormwood
of southernwood
of nettle
of white hellebore
of coltsfoot
of sorrel
of vinegar
of parsnip
of wild garlic
of agaric
of agrimony
of tutsan
of spleenwort
of squill
of oak galls
of columbine
of alexanders
of quicklime
of mallow
of aloes
of ash
of onion
of alum
of spermaceti
of wood sage
of spurge
of starch
of scabious
of garlic
of nettle seed
of dill
of flower of roses
of anise
of celery
of orpiment
of orach
of mercury
of tree gum
of aristolochia
of ragwort
of tansy
of penny royal
of avens
of hazel
of oats
of mouse-ear hawkweed
of gold.