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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 84

84. Citragha: i.e. orufont167: hot and dry in the second degree; the efficacy of this herb is great when it is fresh and small when it is dried; it preserves its efficacy for a year; it has the consuming and dissolving virtues; it is good against oppilation of the liver and the spleen; if it be boiled in wine or ale and the smell of it put to the nose, it will comfort the brain. If the foliage of this herb be put in a little bag and boiled in wine, and placed on the top of the head, it will stop the movement of rheum and headache. A bath should be made of this herb from the navel down, to provoke menstruation; this herb has the power to work against every cold illness, and, in particular, against illness of the head.