---
title: Fragments on Medicinal Herbs
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Βοτανῶν Ἰατρικῶν
author: "Orphic Poems "
eul_wid: lea-af
eul_aid: lea
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/orphic-poems-medicinal-herbs-lea-af"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Epic (Homeric)
domain: Philosophy
format: Collection
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Medicinal Herbs

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Βοτανῶν Ἰατρικῶν*

**Author:** Orphic Poems 

**eul_wid:** `lea-af` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/orphic-poems-medicinal-herbs-lea-af)

## Text

## Ἰδιοφυῆ

### test1

Plin. index XXVIII (de medicinis ex animalibus): Orpheo qui Ἰδιοφυῆ scripsit.

### fr1

Plin. XXV 12: primus autem omnium, quos memoria nouit, Orpheus de herbis curiosius aliqua prodidit etc.

### fr2

Plin. XX 32: Orpheus amatorium inesse staphylino dixit etc.

### fr3

Aetius, Libr. medicinal. I 10 f. 13 b 2 ss. (Ald. 1534): 1. Ὀρφεὺς δέ φησιν ὅτι ὁ χυλὸς αὐτῆς (sc. τῆς καλαμίνθης) σὺν ἴσῳ ῥοδίνῳ μετὰ ψιμυθίου λειωθεὶς ὡς γλοιοῦ ἔχει πάχος καὶ ἐπιχριόμενος τὰ πυρίκαυστα θεραπεύει. τὸ δὲ παράδοξον ὅτι οὐδὲ οὐλὴ φαίνεται καὶ τριχοφυεῖ ὁ τόπος. 2. σὺν κιμωλίᾳ δὲ καὶ ἀλόῃ ἴσοις λειώσας τὸν χυλὸν καὶ ἐπιχρίσας μέτωπον καὶ κροτάφους παύσεις παραχρῆμα κεφαλῆς ὀδύνας.

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