149. Gitt: i.e. cockle; hot and dry in the second degree; it is a herb that grows amongst the wheat169; it serves well for medical purposes; it has the diuretic, consuming, and dissolving virtues; it serves well against oppilation of the liver and spleen, and against stranguria, dysuria, ileus, colic, and pain in the upper part of the stomach, if it be boiled in wine and drunk, and put in potages or in other foods. Item, if the same herb and mullein be boiled in wine, and cotton be dipped in it and put on the anus, this will stop the flux of haemorrhoids. Item, take powder of the same herb and mix it with honey, and this will kill any worms that are in stomach or intestines. If a plaster of the same powder and of juice of wormwood be put on the navel, this will kill every worm there is in intestines. item, if