Part 664 of An Irish Materia Medica

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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 50

50. Balanon, glans: i.e. acorns; they are cold and dry in the second degree; they have the drying and constraining virtues; if powder be made of the acorns, and it be put in the wounds, it will dry them and

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stop the flow of blood, and clean them of contamination; if the foliage of the same tree be cooked fresh, it will prevent tenesmus and lienteria. Rhases says that it has the ability to provoke the urine, and to dry the abdomen, and the same man says that the cupules of the acorns are better for the purposes mentioned than the acorns themselves; they give rise to vapours and headaches when they are eaten, and windiness in the intestines is caused by them.

Of acorns
of gum of a tree
of great plantain
of roseroot
of bugle
of houseleek
of burdock
of bear's breech
of beet
of mullein
of Armenian earth
of borax
of shepherd's purse
of betony
of water mint
of burnet saxifrage
of narrow-leaved water parsnip
of butter.

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