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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 2

2. Accacia, sucus prunellarum, i.e. the juice of unripe sloes; and this juice is cold in the first degree and dry in the third degree; and it is appropriate to give it to those who have the sacer ignis, i.e. erysipelas, and to those who have hotness and wetness in their eyes; and it is good for those who have a rash or scabs on their mouths. Item, Avicenna says, when the womb or the anus emerge, to give this juice as a clyster, and it will put them back in place, and they will be well thereafter. Item, Ar. says, if this juice be given as a drink, it will prevent the flux of the abdomen (diarrhoea) and dysentery in particular, as Avicenna says.