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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 35

35. Anisum, ciminum dulse: i.e. anise; it is hot and dry in the third degree; it is consuming, dissolving and diuretic; it serves well


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against the wind and cold eructation of the stomach, and against every pain of the intestines that comes from coldness; [it serves well] against deafness, i.e. boil the anise in juice of leek or onion and put one drop of it in the ear and it will cure the deafness and pain; when a woman takes it regularly, it increases the milk of the breast, and in the case of a man, it increases the sperm in his testicles. Item, against the bad colour that comes on the skin from a blow or a fall, put the anise through melted wax, and put the wax on it warm, and it will help it. Item, Platearius says to boil this herb with other diuretic herbs and it will open the oppilation of the liver and spleen.