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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 73

73. Citonalens: i.e. setwall; it is hot in the third and dry in the second degree; there are two sorts of it i.e. the garden sort and the wild sort, and the wild sort is the wild valerian; its taste is styptic; it serves well against sterility and diseases of women. The garden setwall has the virtue of comforting the appetite; it comforts


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the brain; it stops windiness; it comforts people suffering from fainting; this herb is good in plasters and drinks for people suffering from malignant tumours. If the root of this herb be applied to a painful tooth, it will stop the pain. If a water be made of this herb as is done in the case of rose-water, and it be sprinkled on the face and head of the fever patient, it will stop the headache. Item, if a powder be made of this herb, that is, of its roots, and it be mixed with the powder of cinnamon and of galingale, and given in potages, it will strengthen the virtue of appetite, and stop windiness of the stomach and of the intestines.