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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 62

62. Bursa pastoris: i.e. shepherd's purse; cold and dry in the second degree; it is powerful against a flux of blood, and against every flux; it is good in ointments for haemorrhage of a vein; a flux of blood will not harm the woman who keeps it at her throat. If put in the bath, it is good against jaundice. If it be put at the throat of sheep, wolves will not see them. If the same herb be made into a powder, and put in the wounds, proud flesh will not develop in them, and it will dry them. The flower of this herb and the flower of violet and the flower of violet (!) and sugar should be pounded together and given to eat to those who spit blood, that is haemoptysis, and such like.


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