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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 33

33. Anetam: i.e. a herb; it is hot in the second degree, but other people say it is dry in the third degree; it cleans the stones of the bladder and kidneys, and eventually breaks them; it preserves its efficacy for three years, though it is better when fresh; it has the dissolving and diuretic virtues, and also the virtue of provoking menstruation gently; put figs in the juice of this herb for a day and a night, boil them in wine the following day, and give it to drink to the person with a chest ailment or a cough, and it will help him; powder the seed of this herb and nettle seed, shake this powder on the place where there are haemorrhoids, and it will help it; this herb serves well to assist with pain in the abdomen, to bring on sleep, to bring gross boils to maturity, and to expel the phlegmatic humour from the internal organs. It cures the hiccup that comes from fulness if it be boiled in lard or oil, and it helps with cramp that comes from fulness; it should be dried and made into powder and sprinkled on ulcers and wounds.


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