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CHAP. 55. De Sagapeno, of Gum Sagapenum.
THe Gum Sagapenum is the juice of a kinde of Ferula, growing in Media.
The names.
It is called in Latine Sagapenum, and Serapinum.
The temperament.
It is hot in the third degree, and dry in the second.
The best kinde.
The best is that which doth smell like Garlick, or between Laser and Galbanum, bright and cleer of a yellowish colour without, but white within, and will soon dissolve in water, or Vineger, also sharp in taste.
The duration.
It will keep good four or five yeers.
The inward use.
Sagapenum purgeth thick, grosse and tough humours, as also wa∣tery from the stomach, belly, wombe, reins, brain, nerves, joynts, and lungs. Therefore it is profitable in the Dropsie, old cough, shortnesse of breath, pain of the head, as in the Megrim, Falling-Sicknesse, Palsie, Cramp, or Convulsion, trembling of the joynts, in stoppings and tumours of the Spleen, in the quartane Ague, Col∣lick, in the stopping of the Urine, and in suppression of the Courses in Women. It is useful in suffocation or rising of the Mother, and against the stinging of venomous beasts, or poyson taken into the body.
The manner of administring it.
It is chiefly given in Pils.
Pils against the Dropsie.
Take of Sagapenum, (moistned or dissolved in the juice of Ele∣campane) two scruples, Trosses of Alhandal a scruple, Diagredium five grains, with syrup of Roses make a masse or lump for two Do∣ses.
The externall use.
Being dissolved in Wine and applyed, it easeth paines of the side, the cough and shortnesse of breath, and is commended against the