 The Spaniards that live in the Indies cal them "Contra-yerva", as if you should say an antidote against poison because the pouder of them taken in white wine is a most present remedie against all poison of what kinde soever it be (only sublimate excepted, whose malignity is only extinguished by the drinking of milk) it causes them to be cast up by vomit or evacuated by sweat.They also say that Philtres or amorous potions are cast forth by drinking this pouder.It also killeth wormes in the belly.