Be it known unto you that it is proper to make bitter with one dram of agaric corrected by one dram of licorice the medicines which, like paulinum, purge the phlegmatic humors of the chest and of the respiratory organs. With one dram of turpeth, corrected by one dram of powdered pepper, or by myrobalan indici, or chebula in accordance with the dosages already mentioned, or by cassia fistola or by esola in accordance with their dosages, it is proper, indeed, to make bitter the medicines which purge phlegmatic humors of the stomach and of the liver.