98. Cubebis: i.e. a spice; it is hot and dry in the first degree, and is temperate; it is the fruit of a tree that grows in India; it retains its efficacy for ten years; it is good when it has a sharp taste, a strong smell, and sweetness; it serves well for the illness of the heart called syncope, i.e. take four scruples of the powder of cubebs and mix them with borage and give it to people with syncope and heartburn, and it will help them. Item, take cubebs, make powder of them, and put it to the nose of the person withapoplexy and epilepsy, and it will help them, and will cleanse the brain of its impurities. Item, take this spice and make a pigmentum of it with wine and honey, and it will comfort the stomach and the internal organs.