176. Licrisi: .i.e. liquorice; hot and wet in the first degree; the doctors say it is the root of a tree; it is best when it is slender and tough, and a deep yellow in colour; it is worst when it is white, light and easily broken; Platearius says that it is good for every illness of the chest, pleurisy, and pneumonia, especially if the water in which liquorice has been boiled be given to them to drink, this will greatly comfort them. Item, take liquorice, and boil it in wine, and it will help with any cough. Item, if an electuary be made of the juice of liquorice and of honey, it will be of help in cases of illness of the chest. Item, if liquorice be chewed and kept under the tongue, it will stop the thirst and it will relieve roughness of the tongue and of the throat as we have said.