114. Endiuia: this herb is cold in the first, degree and dry in the second degree; all of its efficacy is in its foliage and its seed; it has the diuretic virtue, and it comforts the liver and the spleen when they are affected by hot material; this herb is of great benefit against hot internal apostnines; it serves well against the erratic fevers that arise from hot material, in syrups, drinks, and plasters. Take endive, roots of setwall, fresh maidenhair spleenwort, violets, water figwort, ox-eye daisy, marigold, and roots of sorrel, boil these herbs in worts, clarify with honey and liquorice, and drink it like any other syrup. If the juice of this herb be mixed with water, it will open the oppilation of the liver and spleen; Platearius says that this herb does not require much boiling, and that is why it is instructed that it be put into the end boiling of the above described operations.