CHAP. 81. REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF THE SINEWS AND JOINTS.
For diseases of the sinews and joints, plantago,1468 beaten up with salt, is a very useful remedy, or else argemonia,1469 pounded with honey. Patients affected with spasms or tetanus are rubbed with juice of peucedanum.1470 For indurations of the sinews, juice of ægilops1471 is employed, and for pains in those parts of the body erigeron1472 or epithymum,1473 used as a liniment, with vinegar. In cases of spasms and opisthotony, it is an excellent plan to rub the part affected with seed of the hypericon known as “caros,”1474 and to take the seed in drink. Phrynion,1475 it is said, will effect a cure even when the sinews have been severed, if applied instantaneously, bruised or chewed. For spasmodic affections, fits of trembling, and opisthotony, root of alcima1476 is administered in hydromel; used in this manner, if has a warming effect when the limbs are benumbed with cold.