Action and Medical Uses.—Figs are nutritive, emollient, demulcent, and aperient, and are used in costive habits, and to flavor gruels, decoctions, etc. Roasted or boiled, they may be applied as a suppurative poultice to gum-boils, buboes, carbuncles, etc. A poultice of dried figs and milk will remove the stench of cancerous and fetid ulcers (Billroth).
Library · King's American Dispensatory, vol. 1, 1898
FICUS (U. S. P.)—FIG. Action and Medical Uses
Harvey Wickes Felter and John Uri Lloyd, p. 891. Transcribed from the page image on September 25, 2026, as printed.