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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 54

54. Barba siluana: i.e. bugle, hot in the first degree and wet in the second; if this herb be pounded and given to women who suffer from the choleric humour, it will help, and it will expel excess of choleric


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humour. Item, when melancholic humours increase in the stomach so that uncontrollable hiccup is produced by them, dip this herb in wine or water, and it will stop the hiccup forthwith. Item, if this herb be dipped in wine and it be given to drink to a person whose memory fails, it will cure him. Item, Avicenna says to dip this herb in wine or in ale for the person with ulcers, and to do this for eleven days, and it will cure him; if it be given to the woman with a false conception, it will release it promptly thereafter.