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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 59

59. Bilonia, molena: mullein; it serves well against the discharge of the haemorrhoids; it is cold and dry; when it is fresh, its efficacy is great, but when it is dried, its efficacy is slight; it has the constraining and consuming virtues. If this herb itself be put on a red-hot stone, and put hot in the rectum, it will help with the swellings of the piles, but it should be re-heated and changed frequently; if this herb be pounded and put in a stream, it does not flow with the stream, and, for this reason, it is certainly appropriate in every case of discharge.