137. Fu ualerian: Fu168 ualerian: i.e. wild valerian; hot and dry in the second degree. It is gathered in the month of May; it retains its efficacy for three years. If it be boiled in white wine, it will help with urinary disease. If it be boiled in wine, it will help with pain of the stomach, it will soothe the digestion, and it will help with pain of the abdomen. Item, take the roots of this herb, roots of fennel, and mastix, boil them in wine, and this will stop the oppilation of the liver and spleen. Item, take the roots of the same herb and the bran of wheat, boil them in wine, and give this against illness of the womb. If the same herb be boiled in wine, honey and butter, with seed of burnet or of pig nut, this will help with jaundice and with the hardness of the liver which is called ascites.