139. Fructus iuniperi: i.e. the berries of juniper; hot and dry in the third degree; it is gathered in the spring, and it retains its efficacy for two years. If this fruit be boiled in rain water, it will stop the flux that comes after purging. It serves well against stranguria, dysuria, ileus and colic; an oil is made from this seed for the eyes, its name is oleum iuniperi. If an ounce of it be given in food or in drink, it will help with quartan fever. If powder of these berries and soap be mixed together and applied to lesions, this will help with canker and festering. If powder of the same berries, with powder of burnt copper through it, be put in the nose, it will help with polypus. If the same fruit be put in geese and capons when they are being roasted, this will soothe the digestion.