113. Eleborus nider: i.e. the black hellebore; hot and dry in the third degree; its operation is similar to that of the white hellebore, except that the black hellebore serves as a laxative below, and the white hellebore as an emetic above; the root of this herb is best for medical use, because it is usually put in laxative oximels, compounds, and electuaries; this herb purges the natural melancholic humour and the unnatural melancholic humour principally. It serves well against mania and melancholia, and for people who have vertigo and dizziness arising from the melancholic humour; this is how it is put in the laxative purgatives, i.e. a drachma of the powder of the root of this herb, and if this herb is boiled in wine, ale, or mead, two or three