88. Colocindida: i.e. a laxative medicine that is hot and dry in the third degree; it is the fruit of a tree, like apples, with an outer skin, its inside like a bracket fungus, and there are grains inside it; Avicenna says to boil colocynth in wine and it will help with epilepsy; it purges the phlegmatic humour in the first place, and the melancholic humour in the second place; it serves well against the hardness of the liver caused by the phlegmatic humour or the melancholic humour. If the seed of fennel and colocynth be boiled and given to drink, it will greatly comfort the digestion; according to Platearius, it has the killing virtue, especially the colocynth that grows on trees; the colocynth that grows in level places is the best. Platearius says that the flesh and seeds of colocynth are suitable for medicinal purposes; the raw skin is suitable for medicinal purposes because it has the killing virtue; it retains its efficacy for four years; it has the diuretic and sour virtues, as Platearius says; it drives away scabies and every other kind of skin ailment; if it be given as a gargle with vinegar it will help with toothache; if it be given as a purge, it will help with pain, and will kill the worms. If wormwood and powder of colocynth be put as a plaster on the belly, it will kill the worms in the intestines. Item, if the juice of