CHAP. 62.—MILLET: SIX REMEDIES.
Millet [Note] arrests looseness of the bowels and dispels gripings
of the stomach, for which purposes it is first parched. For
pains in the sinews, and of various other descriptions, it is
applied hot, in a bag, to the part affected. Indeed, there is
no better topical application known, as it is extremely light
and emollient, and retains heat for a very long time: hence it
is that it is so much employed in all those cases in which the
application of heat is necessary. The meal of it, mixed with
tar, is applied to wounds inflicted by serpents and millepedes.
