Manna: temperately hot and wet; some people say it is the juice of a herb, and others say it is a heavenly dew that descends on diuretic herbs in the Holy Land; it has the virtue of cleaning the blood. If manna and cassia fistula be mixed together and given in the acute fevers, it will relax the bowels gently and stop the pain. Platearius says if manna be held for a long while in the mouth, it will stop the thirst and the roughness of the tongue. Item, if manna, sugar candy and liquorice be mixed together, it will be a suitable medicine in the acute fevers; of all sweet things, there is none so sweet as the true manna. The doctors say that the virtue and operation of manna are the same as those of cassia fistula; it purges the choleric humour in the first place, and the melancholic humour in the second place; it serves well for people with tertian fever and for people with the jaundice that is caused by the choleric humour. It