162. Laudanum: hot and wet in the first degree; it is best when it is clean, aromatic, brittle, and clear; it has the constraining, comforting and dissolving virtues, The experts say it is the gum ot a tree, and others says that it is something that grows in the company of a herb in the Great World. It a powder be made of it and put in the nostrils, this will help with the shaking, and will purge the rheum. If it be mixed with mastix and applied to the teeth, it will consolidate them. If it be put on hot coals and the fumes be allowed to the vagina, this will clean it and will induce menstruation. If a pessary be made of it and put in the vagina, it will clean it and help with displacement of the uterus. If five pills be made of laudanum and given after meals, this will relieve the digestion.