Fresh carobs3182 are unwholesome to the stomach, and relaxing to the bowels;3183 in a dried state, however, they are astringent, and are much more beneficial to the stomach; they are diuretic also. For pains in the stomach, persons boil three Syrian carobs3184 with one sextarius of water, down to one-half, and drink the decoction.

The juices which exude from the branches of the cornel3185 are received on a plate of red-hot iron3186 without it touching the wood; the rust of which is applied for the cure of incipient lichens. The arbutus or unedo3187 bears a fruit that is difficult of digestion, and injurious to the stomach.