101. Cuscuta: i.e. dodder; it is hot and dry in the first degree; it is a mild laxative, and so far as it loosens the bowels, it is the phlegmatic humour or the viscous humours that it loosens from the stomach and from the intestines; it serves well for people with dropsy; it serves well against the oppilation of the liver and against jaundice; it serves well against the fever called hemitritaeus; the worst dodder is the dodder that grows in the company of flax; it has the ability to attenuate the four humours, particularly the phlegmatic humour. It should be collected when in flower; it retains its efficacy for two years as we have said.