251. Sticatos: i.e. foxglove; hot and dry in the first degree; there are two sorts of it, sticados citrinum and sticados arabicum, the sticados citrinum being the better of them. If it be dried, it will retain its efficacy for a year, both flower and foliage; it has the diuretic virtue on account of its thinness, and the comforting virtue on account of its foliage or its aromatic smell. The flower of this herb may be boiled in wine against tightness of the chest and coldness