221. Pulicaria: i.e. lousewort, and there are two sorts of it, a big sort and a small sort; the big sort is cold and wet in the third degree, and the small sort is hot and dry in the third degree; it has the dissolving and corroding virtues. If it be boiled in wine with dry figs, it will expel the cold humours that occur in the respiratory organs, and it will help with straightness of the breath and every sort of asthma. A bath of this herb against exudations of the vagina. If powder of the same herb be put as a pessary in the vagina, and it will improve conception. Item, take a handful of the tops of this herb and boil it in wine, and apply it hot to the anus, and this will help with the swellings of the piles. Item, if the same herb be put on a hot stone and applied to the top of the head, it will stop the cold rheum, as Avicenna says.