brya · vehicle not stated
Original passage
At Corinth, and in the vicinity of that city, the Greeks give the name of “” to a plant of which there are two varieties; the wild brya, which is altogether barren, and the cultivated one. This last, when found in Syria and Egypt, produces a ligneous fruit, somewhat larger than a gall-nut, in great abundance, and of an acrid flavour; medical men employ it as a substitute for galls in the compositions known as “antheræ.” The wood also, with the blossoms, leaves, and bark of the tree, is used for similar purposes, but their properties are not so strongly developed. also, and given for discharges of blood from the mouth, irregularities of the catamenia, and cœliac affections: beaten up and applied to the part affected, it checks the increase of all kinds of abscesses.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6): Books XXIV–XXXI, translated by John Bostock; H. T. Riley (1856 edition) · Book 24, chapter 42 · THE BRYA: TWENTY-NINE REMEDIES. · lines 2686–2697 · passage pliny-nh:b24:c042:001
What the pipeline extracted
- 1PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.brya“brya”
- 2PartProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.bark“The bark is pounded”
- 3HeatProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.cold“The bark is pounded”
- 4ProcessProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.powder“The bark is pounded”
- 5Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.discharges of blood from the mouth, irregularities of the catamenia, and cœliac affections“discharges of blood from the mouth, irregularities of the catamenia, and cœliac affections”
- Fresh or driedNot stated in source
- Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
- DurationNot stated in source
- FiltrationNot stated in source
- FormNot stated in source