A Foment for the pain of Haemorrhoids.
Take Onion, Linseed, each 4 ounces; Herbs Henbane, Toad flax, Tarrow, Mullein, each 2 handfuls; boil in Water 3 quarts to 2 quarts; in the strain'd dissolve Opium 2 drams; mix and use it
It relaxeth the cruel tension of the Vessels, obtunds the Acuteness of Pain, melts down and discusses those viscid and grumous Feculencies, that lay Obstructions and Obstructions and Excite Tumors: And lastly, it repels the Inundation of the Blood.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710