77. Cauda purcina: i.e., gromwell; it is hot and dry in the third degree; its efficacy remains in its seed for ten years; its seed, and the herb itself, have the diuretic virtue, and they serve well against dysuria and stranguria, and to break the urinary stone. If it be boiled in wine, it will help with ileus and colic. Item, take seed of caraway and of pignut, anise, burnet, gromwell, and alexanders, and water parsnip, equal amounts of each, and three drachmae of grains of