129. Fraximus: i.e. the ash tree; hot and dry in the second degree; it strongly stops the flux that follows a purgative. If the bark of the same tree be boiled in rain water, and the patient put into it up to his belly, it will help with dysentery and lienteric diarrhoea. If the same bark be boiled in milk, it will help with the same illnesses. If it be pounded and boiled in vinegar and put on the upper part of the stomach, it will stop vomiting. If the root-bark of the same tree be boiled in wine, it will stop oppilation of the liver and spleen that comes from coldness. The same root-bark, together with dodder of flax and honeysuckle flowers, will purge the melancholic humour from the spleen.