145. Gladiolus: i.e. yellow flag; hot and dry in the second degree. If small discs be made of its roots and they be boiled in juice of liquorice, it will help with illness of the lungs, and with the cough that is caused by coldness. If powder of the same herb be put in potage, it will expel melancholic humour. If the same powder be given against sorcery and poisoned drinks, it will help with them, and it is good, too, against oppilation of the liver and spleen. If powder of the same herb be put with honey into wet wounds and the opening of ulcers, it will help with them. If the powder of the same herb be mixed with honey and put in the wounds, it will stop the development of proud flesh, and it will clean them. Item, if the roots of the same herb be boiled in wine and drunk, it will help with any bruising a person suffers from a blow or a fall. Item, if the roots of the same herb be pounded and their juice, together with honey, be applied to the eyes, it will dissolve their cataract. Against exudation and wrinkles on the face, if a plaster of the roots of this herb and of the roots of white hellebore and honey be put on them overnight, it will clear the face. If the seed of the same herb be boiled in wine, it will provoke menstruation and the dead foetus, and the urine. Item, if the roots of the same herb be put in oximels with powder of stinking iris and dwarf elder and other laxative, diuretic, herbs, it will serve well for people with dropsy.