erythrodanus · vehicle not stated
Original passage
The , by some called “ereuthodanus,” and in Latin “rubia,” is quite a different plant. It is used for dyeing wool, and skins for leather are prepared with it. Used medicinally, it is a diuretic, and, employed with hydromel, it is curative of jaundice. Employed topically with vinegar, it heals lichens; and for sciatica and paralysis, the patient while using it taking a bath daily. The root of it and the seed are effectual as an emmenagogue; they act astringently upon the bowels, and disperse gatherings. The branches, together with the leaves, are applied to wounds inflicted by serpents; the leaves too have the property of staining the hair. I find it stated by some writers that this shrub is curative of jaundice, even if worn as an amulet only, and looked at every now and then.
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 56 · THE ERYTHRODANUS: ELEVEN REMEDIES. · lines 3021–3033 · passage pliny-nh:b24:c056:001
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- 1PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.erythrodanus“erythrodanus”
- 2FormProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.drink“a potion is prepared from it”
- 3Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.sciatica and paralysis“sciatica and paralysis”
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