213. Opoponax: ‘opo’ is the same in Greek as ‘sugh’ (juice) in Irish, and ‘ponax’ in the same language is the same as ‘luibh’ (herb) in Irish, because it is the juice of a herb that is obtained in the East. It is hot and dry in the third degree; Platearius directs to make small pills of it and to give them in a soft egg, and this will help with the breathing difficulty called asthma. Item, if it be put in juice of wormwood for a day and a night, and strained the next day, and sugar and honey be put in it, and it be drunk the next day fasting, it will help with the dropsy that comes from coldness, and every other cold symptom that comes from the fevers. If it be put on red coals and the fumes be allowed to the nose, it will help with lethargia. If the same thing be put in juice of the skin of the root of elder for a night, and it be pressed the following day, and it be given warm with sugar, it will help with dropsy and with the cold illnesses in general. If opopanax be put on red coals and the fumes be allowed to the vagina, this will provoke the after-birth and it will induce the dead foetus that is there. If a pessary be made of the same thing together with mugwort, and cotton be dipped in it and put in the vagina, it will induce menstruation. If opopanax be given with the juice of wormwood and honey, it will kill any worms that occur in people or in horses.