108. Diptannus, pulegium martis: i.e. the two names of dittany; it is hot and dry in the third degree; it has the attractive virtue and the attenuating virtue and the dissolving virtue; it serves well in the case of illness of the liver and of the bite of a mad dog. If this herb be pounded and a plaster made of it or its juice drunk, it will help with wounding by a mad dog and with every poison; it serves well to boil this herb in wine against stranguria and dysuria, and it cures them. Given in wine, it helps with asthma. If the roots of this herb be boiled in the juice of mugwort and administered in the vagina as a pessory, it will provoke menstruation and will expel the dead foetus that is in the womb. If this herb be boiled in juice of rue, and powder of castorium be put in it, and if it be drunk, it will help with epilepsy. If the same herb and cowslip be pounded and put as a plaster on the part of the body which is shaking, it will help. [Platearius] says that this herb is better when it is fresh than when it is dried, and that its efficacy is of greater effect in its root than in its aerial parts, and it retains its efficacy in its root when dried for two years. If the powder of this herb be mixed with juice of mint, it will help with every poison and with every female disorder. Item, take powder of this herb, juice of wormwood, and a little white sugar, mix them, and give a spoonful every day and it will help with pain of the stomach and with hysteria. If powder of this herb and juice of mint be kept in the mouth for a long time, it will help with paralysis of the tongue. If the juice of this and the