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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 68

68. Calamentum (vel calamentum maighis): i.e. calamint; it is hot and dry in the third degree; there are two sorts of it, a big sort and a small sort; the big sort is nepeta, and the small sort is ordinary calamint. If calamint be boiled in wine or in mulsa, it will provoke sweating. Item, if calamint be boiled in oil and rubbed on the pulses and on the body before the paroxysm of quotidian fever, it will help, and will stop the fever. Item, if this herb be pounded and put on the hollow behind the knee, it will help with the pain of the back, and the cold pangs that are there, and will drive off the viscous humours from the joints of the back. Item, if this herb be pounded and boiled in wine or in ale, it will provoke menstruation. Item, if it be boiled in water, and the vulva washed with it, it will do the same.


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Item, if calamint be boiled in wine or in ale, and drunk by a person who has been wounded by a mad dog or by a wild dog or a poisonous serpent, it will cure it. Item, if this herb be pounded and dipped in water, it will expel worms from the abdomen. Item, if the same herb, that is the juice of it, be put in the ears, it will kill the worms that occur in them; pregnant women should not have anything to do with this herb, because it provokes abortion. Item, if this herb be pounded or boiled in wine, it will help with asthma, tightness of the chest, oppilation of the liver and the spleen, hiccup, and pain in the stomach.