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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 38

38. Arracia, attriplex: i.e. common orache; it is hot in the first degree and wet in the second; it serves well against the dryness of the intestines that comes from inflammatory choleric humour; if a pottage be made with it to be taken fasting, i.e. mutton soup, it will loosen the bowels gently. Item, take common orache, mercury (the plant), mallow, borage, and violet, boil them in fresh butter, put anise in it, give in wine or in hot ale, drink it before going to bed, and it will help with a cough, and will loosen the bowels. Item, take the same herb, roots of stinking iris, maidenhair spleenwort, hart's tongue fern, the lower part of carrot, burnet saxifrage, and gromwell, boil them in wine, strain them, put clean honey through it, and drink it in the morning and before going to bed, and it will help with exudations of the kidneys and of the bladder. Item, if the same herb be moistened with vinegar and put as a plaster on the joints, it will help with diseases of the joints such as arthritis, podagra, and the likes.