258. Storax: i.e. the gum of a tree that is hot in the first degree and dry in the second degree; it is found in India; it has the attractive virtue, and it has a gross substance; there are three sorts of it, storax liquida, which is found in Calabria, storax calamita, so called from the Greek word calo (καλς), and ‘calo’ in Greek means the same as ‘maith’ (good) in Irish, because this is the best sort of storax, and storax micor (?), which is obtained in India; each of these sorts retains its efficacy for ten years. If storax and red rose be boiled in water and pressed through a linen cloth, it will clean the brain. If a plaster of fresh wax, storax and common oil be put on the upper part of the stomach, it will stop pain. If a pill be made of storax and honey, and it be held under the tongue, it will help with catarrh. If storax be put on red coals, and the fumes be allowed to the vagina, it will provoke menstruation and it will help