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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 83
83. Cotilodion (vel cimbulairia, umbilicius ueniris):
i.e. pennywort; it is cold and wet; it has the softening and repercussive virtues; it serves well against chest troubles. Item, this salve should be made:
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violets, the skin of the climbing stem of ivy, garden hyssop, the tops of water mint, pennywort, foliage of mallow, beet, borage, and the tops of the bilberry plant, pound these herbs and boil them in fresh butter, and let them through a linen cloth, as a salve as appropriate against every illness of the chest.