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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 44
44. Athasar, polem regale: i.e. penny royal; it is hot and dry in the third degree; this herb serves well against poison, especially when one consumes herbs which have a poisonous virtue, such as hemlock water dropwort, dock (Rumex crispus), or hemlock, and the herbs that kill; it serves also for people who get a fall or a bruising or are rendered speechless, if it be taken in a drink. If this herb be pounded and given in vinegar, it will expel the melancholic humour; if
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it be held in the mouth, it will serve against swelling and pain of the uvula; if it be boiled in wine or ale it will provoke the urine and menstruation; if it be boiled in the same way, it will comfort the stomach and prevent rumbling and windiness of the intestines. Item, if this herb be held a long time in the mouth, it will help with toothache. Item, if a plaster be made of this herb with flour of wheat, it will help with pain of the nerves; this herb serves well to kill worms of the intestines called lumbrici.