150. Genestula: i.e. broom; cold and dry; it has the styptic virtue; it serves well against flux of menstruation to make a bath of this herb in water and to allow the fumes to the vagina. If a powder be made of seed of broom and mixed with juice of plantain and administered as a pessary, it will stop the flux of menstruation. If a stupe be made of the seed of the same herb and its fumes be allowed to the body, it will stop dysentery.