A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Axungia,-ae (s.f.I): axle-tree grease, axle-grease; wagon grease; grease or fat in general (Lewis & Short); animal fat, usu., hog’s fat, used as a medicament (Glare) [> L. axis,-is (s.m.III), q.v., an axis, axle + unguens,-entis (part.B), q.v., smearing, oiling]; see lard;

Axungia porci [= gen.sg. porcus,-i (s.m.II), a pig, hog] = ‘lard; axonge;’ = Axungia porcina (adj.A, of or relating to pigs).

syn. adeps,-ipis (s.m.III), q.v.; syn. adeps suillus (adj.A) = pig grease, lard.

abbrev. axung. porci; axung. porcina.

- Usus Verbenae in dolore lienis (cum axungia porci) (Ray), the use of Verbena in pain of the spleen (with lard).

-[Nasturtium hortense] extrinsecus usu venit in apophlegmatismis, errhinis, phoenigmis: furfures ac scabiem foedum capitis aliarumque partium sanat tritum aut frixum cumque porci axungia illitum. Schrod. (Ray); Nasturtium hortense, when daubed externally, comes into use [i.e. practice, employment] in expectorants [i.e. in expelling phlegm], in errhines [i.e. sternutatories, i.e. inducing discharge and/or sneezing when applied inside the nose], for phoenigmies [i.e. the reddening of the skin with rubefacients]: it heals severe scale and scabies of the head and of other parts when ground and parched [i.e. fried] with (hog) lard.

- Ex Paraeo observat Sim. Paulus, ad foedam crustosam puerorum scabiem nihil tam promptum esse & efficax, quam Nasturtium hortense tritum aut frixum cum porci axungia (Ray); according to Paraeus, Sim. [Simon] Paulus observes that nothing is so prompt and effective than Nasturtium hortense ground or fried with lard for the severe crustose scab of boys [i.e. children]; see scab.

- ad duritiem mammarum propter lactis coagulationem, lavetur locus bis de die, & superponantur Folia etiam Enulae, ut & Marrubii, & etiam seminum Lini axungia emplastrata; tollunt dolorem, ut sum expertus (Ray), for hardness of the breasts due to coagulation [i.e. curdling] of the milk, the place may be bathed twice a day, and when leaves are applied upon it both of Enula, as for example of Marrubium, and also poulticed with the grease of the seeds of Linum [i.e. flax seeds; flax-seed oil] it alleviates pain, as I myself have found [i.e. experienced].

- Herba cum axungia trita strumas discutit. Sanguinis etiam abundantiam ex vulneribus reprimere folia imposita Plinius tradit (Ray); an herb that when ground with lard breaks up strumas [i.e. scrophlous swellings; goiters]. Also Pliny teaches the leaves pressed down, stanches an abundance of [i.e. great amount of] blood from wounds.

- [Verbena supina] extrinsecus in cephalalgia, odontalgia, alopecia, melancholia; in oculorum lippitudine, imbecillitate, rubore; in angina, raucedine (collo circumplasmatizata); in tumore glandularum in faucibus [gargaris.] in dolore lienis (cum axungia porci) ac podagrico mitigando (Ray); [Verbena supina] [applied] externaly in [conditions or states of] headache, toothache, baldness, melancholy; in wateriness [i.e. inflammation] of the eyes, imbecility [i.e. constitutional weakness], rubor [i.e. redness caused by e.g. inflammation]; in angina [i.e. quinsy, acute throat infection], hoarseness [i.e. from tracheal diseases] [with the neck poulticized or plasterized on all sides], in tumor [i.e. the swelling] of the glands in the throat [gargling], in pain of the spleen (with lard), and for mitigating gout.