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Ascyron [Note] and ascyroïdes are plants similar to one another, and to hypericon [Note] as well, except that the plant known as
ascyroïdes" [Note] has larger branches, ferulaceous, red all over, and bearing small yellow heads. The seed, enclosed in small calyces, is diminutive, black, and resinous. The tops of the branches, when bruised, stain like blood; for which reason some persons have given it the name of "androsæmon." [Note] The seed is used for the cure of sciatica, being taken in doses of two drachmæ, in one sextarius of hydromel. It relaxes the bowels, and carries off bile: it is applied also to burns.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 27.19 | Plin. Nat. 27.20 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 27.21 |
