De Piretro.

They say ginger and pepper are equal in medicine:

for this reason I am silent about its virtues.

Ginger and pepper are well preserved lest they putrefy.

Pellitory is hot and dry, and the fourth in these

Is its degree: if a cold humor should shake the teeth,

Let the patient chew this: and hold it longer in the mouth,

And it helps if it is gargled with vinegar mixed in.

And in this way it represses a tongue swollen from phlegm,

Thus it relieves the uvula pressed by the weight of humor,

And thus it comes to the aid of many other ailments of the mouth.

Taken with honey, it is of no small benefit to epileptics,

And thus it is wont to relieve the disease that weakens the limbs.

Hung around the neck, it is believed to benefit epileptic boys:

And it is said to help by its scent alone.

If you anoint the body with the oil in which it is boiled down,

Before the onset of a fever: it will diminish it, or remove the shivering.

Such an ointment often drives away a heavy pain of the kidneys.

A paralytic anointed with it feels a wondrous effect,

If he has been rubbed often, not lightly, with the hands

With the ointment: if you soothe the whole body with this

Copious sweat will proceed through the opened pores,

And it is wont to settle any numbness of the limbs,

And it can aid the body, kept safe from cold,

And torpor will be dissolved by this medicine.

It is just as beneficial if you dissolve the crushed plant in olive oil.