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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 77

77. Cauda purcina: i.e., gromwell; it is hot and dry in the third degree; its efficacy remains in its seed for ten years; its seed, and the herb itself, have the diuretic virtue, and they serve well against dysuria and stranguria, and to break the urinary stone. If it be boiled in wine, it will help with ileus and colic. Item, take seed of caraway and of pignut, anise, burnet, gromwell, and alexanders, and water parsnip, equal amounts of each, and three drachmae of grains of


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paradise, mix them, and take them as is appropriate. Item, take foliage of gromwell, foliage of tutsan, and seed of burnet, pound them, and mix them with pig lard, and apply them to the kidneys, and it will help with the pain that occurs there.