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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 7

Albagia, portulaca, pes pulli: i.e. the three names of the coltsfoot; it is cold and wet in the third degree; its efficacy is great when it is fresh, and small when it is withered; its power is to bring the members gently to coldness and wetness, so that, therefore, it is appropriate in food for those with choleric fevers, it serves well for people who have excessive heat internally, and it also serves against constipation of the abdomen in the acute illnesses if it be boiled with sloes and taken, both plant and sloes, after they have been boiled; this plant is appropriate against a cracked lip, and if it be pounded it will abate imposthumes at the initial stages appropriately. Note, too, according to Platearius, that when this plant is dried it provokes the urine, and when it is fresh it provokes faecal evacuation.