52. Barba filicana, plantago maigheor: i.e. plantain; it is cold in the first degree and dry in the second degree; to clean and heal wounds, it is good to pound this herb and to put honey through it; if a pottage be made of this herb in a rich mutton soup or in milk, it will help with flux of the abdomen. Item, pound this herb and put it in milk, and it will help with the spitting of blood and with the coughing that comes from hotness. Item, if a plaster of this herb be put on a wound, it will stop its bleeding. If the same herb be pounded and put through the white of egg, it will help powerfully with a burn. If this herb be pounded and wool be dipped in it and it be put on the bite of a mad dog, it will help with it. Item, if plantain be pounded and its juice drunk fasting, it will cure epilepsy. If the juice of the same herb be held in the mouth, it will help with disease of the mouth. If the juice of this herb be put on erysipelas, it will flee before it. Item, if a linen cloth be put in the juice of this herb, and it be put on the surface over the liver, it will help with its swelling and pain. Item, against toothache, swelling of the gums, and their heating, if this herb be chewed, it will cure it. Item, to stop menstruation, dip some waxed wool in the juice of the herb, and