23. Alphur, flos fraxini: i.e. the flower of the ash; it is hot and dry in the third degree; if the bark and seed of this tree be boiled in water, and the person who has flux after purging be put in the water up to his navel, and if the bracket fungus that grows on the ash be boiled in rain water and drunk, it will help with every flux; if it be boiled in vinegar with the bark of the same tree, and a linen cloth be dipped in it and put on the stomach, it will cure its pain; if the root bark of this tree be boiled in wine until one third has boiled off, it will relieve people with illness of the spleen and it will purge the melancholic humour.