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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 71
71. Cinoglosa: i.e. hound's tongue; it is hot and dry; it has the virtue of comforting the heart; it serves well against disease of the spleen; its root has the ability to stop vomitting; it serves well against the disease known as nausea and for gastric spasm; the tops of
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the herb provoke vomitting. Item, take seed of horse-radish and tops of hound's tongue, pound them, rub them in warm whey, and they will provoke vomiting. Item, to make a drink to comfort the heart i.e. take roots of hound's tongue, root of nettle, root of burnet and mint, the base of the stem of avens, agrimony, sage, and calamint, pound them, put them in wine or in ale, and, if it be taken as a drink, it will comfort the heart. Item, take the tops of this herb and bark of the ash-tree, boil them in wine, and put as a plaster on the spleen, and it will comfort it.