45. Auansia, gairiofilata: i.e. the avens; it is hot and dry in the second degree; its foliage is of greater efficacy than its root; it has the dissolving, consuming and opening virtues; a fomentation of this herb provokes menstruation, and the same fomentation serves against the colic; it serves against pain of the stomach and wind of the intestines to boil this herb in wine or in ale, and it will comfort the digestion; there are two sorts of this herb, i.e. the wood sort and the water sort; the water sort is the better against flux of the abdomen; the roots of the wood avens serve wherever cloves serve.