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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 81

81. Cerefolium: i.e. chervil; it is hot and dry, but the degree is not to be found from the doctors. If this herb be pounded and mixed with honey, it will help with canker. Item, if the same herb be boiled in wine and given to the women, it will provoke menstruation. If this herb be pounded and boiled together with pig lard and with wax, and put on the hard boils, it will soften them. If this herb be boiled together with vinegar, it serves well against flux of the abdomen. If this herb be boiled in water and the head be washed in it, it will help with dizziness and vertigo. If the same herb be pounded and put, as a plaster on the forehead, it will help with headache.