203. Melli: i.e. a herb; hot and dry in the second degree, and it is its root which is called by this name; it is because of its sweetness that it is called by this name; it has the diuretic virtue because of its fineness, and the attractive virtue because of its own qualities. If it be boiled in wine or water and drunk, it will open the oppilation of the liver and spleen, It should be boiled in water in the summer time for young people who have that oppilation. It should be boiled in wine in cold weather for old people who have the aforesaid oppilation. If powder be made of the roots of the same herb, and powder of the seed of fennel be put through it, and it be given in food or drink, it will soothe the digestion and comfort the internal organs. Item, if the same herb be boiled in wine and applied hot to the anus it will help with tenesmus. Item, if an electuary be made of powder of meu and honey, it will greatly comfort the digestion.