Vienna Dioscorides II.176.rt
Top Center: κάχρυ: Cachry. Bottom Center: ταύτης ὁ καρπός κάχρυς καλεῖται. φύλλα ἔχει μαράθῳ ὅμοια, πλατύτερα δὲ τροχοειδῶς ἐπὶ γῆς ἐστρωμένα· καυλὸν δὲ ὅσον πήχεως καὶ μείζονα, μασχάλας ἔχοντα πολλὰς ἐπ’ ἄκρων σκιάδιᾳ, ἐφ’ ὧν καρπὸς πολύς, λευκός, ἐοικὼς σφονδυλίῳ, περιφερής, γωνίας ἔχων, ἀριμύς, ῥητινίζων, ἐν τῷ διαμασᾶσθαι επικαίων τὴν γεῦσιν· ῥίζα δὲ λευκή, εὐμεγέθης, ὑπὸ τι ὄζουσα λιβάνου. φύεται δὲ ἐν πετρώδεσι καὶ τραχέσι τόποις. καταπλασθεῖσα δὲ ἡ πόα αἱμορροίδας στέλλει, φλεγμαινούσας καὶ δακτύλιον πραύνει καὶ κονδυλώματα καὶ κοιράδας καὶ τὰ δύσπεπτα τῶν ἀποστημάτων συμπέσσι. αἱ δὲ ῥίζαι ξηραὶ σὺν μέλιτι ἕλκη ἀποκαθαίρουσι καὶ στρόφους ιῶνται καὶ θηριοδήκτοις ἁρμόζουσιν σὺν οἴνῳ πινόμεναι· ἔμμηνά τε ἄγουσι καὶ διαφοροῦσιν οἰδήματα παλαιὰ καταπλασσόμεναι. ὁ δὲ χυλὸς τῆς ῥίζης καὶ τῆς πόας ὀξυδερκὴς μιγνύμενος μέλιτι καὶ ἐνχριόμενος. ὁ δὲ καρπὸς πινόμενος τὰ αὐτὰ ποιεῖ, βοηθεῖ καὶ ἐπιληψίαις καὶ ταῖς ἐν θώρακι παλαιαῖς διαθέσεσιν, ἴκτερον μετὰ πεπέρεως καὶ οἴνου διδόμενος. ἰᾶται ἔστιν δὲ καὶ ἱδρωτικοῖς σὺν ἐλαίῳ ἀλιφόμενος, ἁρμόζει καὶ σπάσμασιν καὶ ῥήγμασιν, ποδάγραις τε καταπλασσόμενος λεῖος σὺν ἐρίνῳ ἀλεύρῳ καὶ ὄξει, ἀλφούς τε σμήχει μιγνύμενος ὄξει δριμυτάτῳ.
The fruit of this is called cachry. Its leaves bear a likeness to fennel, but are wider and lie on the ground in a circle. Its stem is one cubit long and greater, having many branches and a cluster at the top, upon which there is much fruit, [which is] white, and resembling a vertebra, it is round, having nooks, pungent, smelling like resin, and burning to the taste when chewed. The root is white, of good size, and smelling of frankincense. It grows in rocky and rugged places. When its leafage is plastered on it shrinks hemorrhoids, swellings, and soothes the anus, and it brings to a head callous lumps, scrofulous swellings, and ailments which periodically refuse to be assimilated. The dried roots with honey clease wounds, cure colic, and are suitable for the victims of animal bites when drunk with wine; they draw the monthly flow and disperse old tumors when plastered on. The juice of the root and of the leafage, mixed with honey, [makes] sharpsightedness when smeared on. The fruit does the same things when drunk, it also helps with boughts of epilepsy and long-term conditions in the chest, and jaundice when given with pepper and wine. It causes persiration when rubbed on with olive oil, and it is suitable for spasms and fractures, and for cases of gout when plastered on evenly with with fine wheat-meal and vinegar, and it wipes clean dull-white leprousy when mixed with very sharp vinegar.