256. Stipica: i.e. every herb that has the styptic virtue is usually cold and dry. These are the spices and gums that are styptic: gum Arabic, spodium, white and red sandalwood, mummy, bolus Armenicus, mastix, the skin of pomegranate, dragons blood, and the likes. These are the styptic herbs: vervain, plantain, water mint, juice of wormwood, juice of knotgrass, juice of the red rose, juice of unripe sloes, juice of tansy, hypocistis, and madder.