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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 27
27. Ambrosiana, eupatorium, lilifagus: i.e. the three names of the wood sage; it is hot in the first degree and dry in the second degree; this herb is called the wood sage; its virtue is great when it is fresh, and small when it is dry; it serves well against quartan and quotidian fever, against universal or particular paralysis, against
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the dropsy called ascites, and against the jaundice that comes from oppilation of the liver; this is how it is given, boil this herb in the juice of wild celery, put honey and vinegar through it, give it as a syrup, and it will help with hardness of the spleen. The advantages of the herb include the provocation of menstruation, and it cleans the urinary passages and the channels of the kidneys of their sand. Item, give the juice of this herb and the kernels of cherries to drink, and it will kill all the worms that occur in a person's body.