69. Ciclamin, malum terre: i.e. the pignut; it is hot and dry in the third degree; it has the attractive, consuming and dissolving virtues. Item, if pignut be pounded and pig lard be put through it, and it be put on hard boils, it will mature them. Item, if the root of this herb be dried in the sun, and made into powder, and put in the wounds, it will clean them of their proud flesh. The right time to gather this herb is the last week in the month of August, and its efficacy will last for two years.