Pseudo-Dioscorides, De lapidibus

Λίθος ἱερακίτης καὶ ἰνδικὸς περιαπτόμενος μηρῷ δεξιῷ τὰς αἱμορροΐδας ἀναξηραίνουσιν, ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐπειράθημεν· ὁ δὲ Διογένης ἐν τῷ περὶ λίθων οὕτω φησίν· Ἱερακίτης λίθος ὑπόχλωρος μέν ἐστι καὶ πρὸς τὸ μέλαν ἐπικλίνει· δύναμιν δὲ ἔχει ἀναξηραντικὴν αἱμορροΐδων.

The hierakites stone and the Indian stone, tied onto the right thigh, dry up haemorrhoids, as we too have found by trial. And Diogenes, in his [work] On Stones, says this: “The hierakites stone is greenish and verges on black; and it has the power of drying up haemorrhoids.”