239. Sal: i.e. salt; hot in the second degree and dry in the third degree; it serves well against repletion of the stomach that comes from cold humours. If it be boiled in vinegar and drunk as an emetic, it will clean principally. If salt be put in a little bag and heated before the fire, and put on the spleen, or on the stomach, or on any other place where he has pain, it will stop the pain immediately. If salt be pounded finely and boiled in honey until it is thick, and suppositories be made of it of the thickness of a candle, and it be given in the rectum, it will relax the bowel without danger; the use of salt serves well in cold complexes and against indigestion of the stomach.