SCOLYMOS · vehicle not stated
Original passage
This plant, gathered before it blossoms, and beaten up and subjected to pressure, produces a juice, which, applied to the head, makes the hair grow again when it has fallen off through alopecy. The root of either kind, boiled in water, creates thirst, it is said, in those who drink it. It strengthens the stomach also, and if we are to believe what is said, has some influence upon the womb in promoting the conception of male offspring: at all events, Glaucias, who seems to have paid the most attention to the subject, has written to that effect. , imparts sweetness to the breath.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6): Books XVIII–XXIII, translated by John Bostock; H. T. Riley (1856 edition) · Book 20, chapter 99 · THE THISTLE OR SCOLYMOS: SIX REMEDIES. · lines 11526–11535 · passage pliny-nh:b20:c099:002
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- 1PartProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.resin“The thin juice, like mastich, which exudes from these plants”
- 2Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.imparts sweetness to the breath“imparts sweetness to the breath”
- 3PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.SCOLYMOS“SCOLYMOS” (from the entry heading)
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