Choice.
The best galls are unripe, heavy, hard, while yellow and friable ones have little strength, and they burn on coals.
Nature.
They are cold in the first degree, dry in the second.
Actions and properties.
Their astringent property is very strong, they do not allow liquids to flow. Their substance is earthy and cold.
Cosmetics.
Their juice and the water in which they were washed blacken the hair.
Wounds and ulcers.
Galls and vinegar are applied to lichens and they destroy them. If you sprinkle wild meat with powder from them, it shrivels.
Organs of the head.
Galls prevent the flow of spoiled fluids to the tongue and gums and help with coula, mainly in children. Galls with vinegar are especially useful. Galls also help if placed on corroded teeth.
Eruption organs.
Powder from the galls is sprinkled into water and drunk for intestinal ulcers and chronic diarrhea. If you put galls in dishes, they are also suitable for this. Sometimes they are boiled, and the powder from them is applied in the form of a medicinal bandage to the anus; it helps against tumors in it. And sometimes the Gauls are burned on coals, extinguished with vinegar and pounded; powder from them stops any bleeding.