torminalis

ὃν οὐ τύπτει λόγος οὐδὲ ῥάβδος → if words don't get through, neither a beating will | if the carrot doesn't work, the stick will not work either | whom words do not strike, neither does the rod

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

tormĭnālis: e, adj. tormina,
I of or belonging to the gripes, good against the colic: sorba, Cels. 2, 30 med.; 4, 19; Plin. 15, 21, 23, § 85.