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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 64

64. Balsamita: i.e. water mint; hot in the second and dry in the third degree. If this herb be pounded and boiled in its own juice, it will help with headache; the same plaster put on the stomach will help with its windiness and its pain. Item, if the same plaster be put on the navel, it will help with the colic and ileus. Item, if the same plaster be put on the anus, it will cure the swellings of the piles; this herb has the diuretic virtue. Item, every herb that has the diuretic virtue also has the virtue of opening the pores.