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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 56

56. Bardana no lapa: i.e. burdock; Avicenna says that the root of this herb serves well against poison and kills snakes, and he says also, whoever rubs the juice of this herb on himself, that neither a bee nor a snake will sting or bite him on that day. Item, if the juice of this herb be held in the mouth, it will consolidate the teeth. Item, if the root of this herb be eaten, it will stop the

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spitting of blood. If the roots of this be boiled in wine it will help with dysentery. If the roots of this herb be boiled in wine, it will help with urinary stones. If this herb, bottom and top, be pounded and pig lard put through it, it will break and ripen boils, as Avicenna says.