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CHAP. 62.—CUNILA GALLINACEA, OR ORIGANUM: FIVE REMEDIES.

There is another variety, again, known to our people as "cunila gallinacea,"1 and to the Greeks as Heracleotic origanum.2 Beaten up with salt, this plant is good for the eyes; and it is a remedy for cough and affections of the liver. Mixed with meal, and taken as a broth, with oil and vine- gar, it is good for pains in the side, and the stings of serpents in particular.

1 Or "Poultry cunila:" the Origanum Heracleoticum of Linnæus.

2 See B. xxv. c. ]2.

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