Latin Texts & Translations

The iasione, ^[Note] which is also looked upon as a wild vegetable, is a creeping plant, full of a milky juice: it bears a white

flower, the name given to which is "concilium." The chief recommendation of this plant, too, is that it acts as an aphrodisiac. Eaten with the food, raw, in vinegar, it promotes the secretion of the milk in nursing women. It is salutary also for patients who are apprehensive of phthisis; and, applied to the head of infants, it makes the hair grow, and renders the scalp more firm.