201. Mala masiana: i.e. crab apples; cold and dry; the degree is not to be found in the books of Platearius; they have the constraining virtue. Take these wild apples and the soft shoots of bramble, pound them and boil them in vinegar, and apply it to the kidneys or the groin, and it will help with dysentery. Sweet apples create a great deal of windiness. The styptic wild apples should be given after food, raw or cooked; they greatly serve to people recovering from illness who have indigestion in their stomachs; they should be given as follows, i.e., cut the apples across, take out the pips that are inside, and fill with these powders: powder of cloves, nutmeg, and lignum aloes, and if these are not to be had, put in powder of cumin on its own, or pepper; roast them and eat them after meals, and this will greatly comfort the digestion. Item, if the pulp of the same apple be roasted and mixed with alum and borax and put on canker, it will help with it for sure, as we have said.