Re: OT: humor/Pliny
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: humor/Pliny
- From: H*
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 17:17:47 -0900
- References: <8c.1777871.25f1b580@aol.com>
From: Haggstroms <hagg@alaska.net>
GardnrJan1@aol.com wrote:
> relieves cough, griping, and flatulence; >>
> LOL!!!!!!! Oh, what that iris can do!!
>
I'm glad I'm not the only one who found the list humorous. From what I
gather:
> It conduces to the health of babies to have this tied
> on them, especially when they are teething or
> suffering from cough,
...... It's good (and decorative) for fussy babies.
> and to inject it into those suffering from tapeworms.
......... I don't want to touch this one. I've seen tapeworm in dogs - I
don't want to visualize what you're supposed to do with the rhizome.
> Its other properties are not much different from those of honey. It
> cleanses sores on the head, especially abcesses of long standing.
......... you can wear rhizomes on your head to hide a bad hair month :-)
> Taken in
> doses of two drachmae with honey it relaxes the bowels;
........ use it as a laxative.
> taken in drink it relieves cough, griping, and flatulence;
.............. strong drink, one assumes, especially for the griping.
> in vinegar, complaints of the spleen.
............... you can use it to win the funniest face contest at the state
fair.
> In vinegar and water it is an antidote against the bites of snakes
and of spiders;
......... irrigated or drank? I'd hate to be wrong on this one.
> against stings of scorpions two drachmae by weight are
> taken in bread or water;
............. and I would also irrigate with it, wear the rhizome, and
inject it, just to cover all the bases.
> for dog bites and abrasions it is applied in oil.
........ that must mean it's good for people bites too - good to know.
> applied to aching sinews, Snuffed up through the nostrils ..
> For headache .... It dispels also the after
> effects of wine and orthopnoea.... it acts as an emetic....
> it draws out splinters of broken bone. For whitlows... for corns and
warts.
> sweetens foul breath and offensive armpits.... softens all indurations.
> It induces sleep.... It heals cracks in the anus and condylomata
> (and all excrescences on the body......disperses scrofulous sores,
> superficial abscesses and swellings in the groin.
............. I'm tossing my first aid kit out of the plane, and just
bringing along a couple of iris rhizomes.
> While speaking of this plant also I will make known
> the dishonesty of the herbalists. They keep back certain
> parts of it. If they think their pay is insufficient, they
> bury in the same place the part they have kept back,
> to make the complaints they have cured break out again."
...........I knew there was a catch to this.
Thanks Jeff, for the translation. I looked up Pliny earlier on the internet
and came up only with the Latin version of this text.
Kathy Haggstrom
Anchorage, AK
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