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"Aspalathus is a woody kind of shrub with many prickly
thorns — growing in Istrus, Nisyrus, Syria and
Rhodes — which the ointment makers use for thickening
their ointments. The best is heavy, and after it has been
harvested inclining to a red or a purple colour, thick,
fragrant, and bitter to the taste. There is also another kind
of it with scattered bristles or thorns — white, woody,
without any smell — which is considered the worst. It has
a heating and astringent quality. As a result, boiled in
wine and gargled, it is good for an ulcerated mouth and
gangrenous ulceration in the genitals. It is infused for
unclean discharges and fetid nasal discharges; and put
into a pessary it is an abortifacient. A decoction stops
bowels, and taken as a drink it stops bloody vomiting,
and dissolves painful urination and gaseousness. It is also
called sphagnon, or phasganon, the Syrians call it diaxylon,
and some, erysisceptron"