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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 89

89. Consolida madior: i.e. comfrey, and it is called comfrey; it is cold and dry in the second degree; it has the ability to join and consolidate the bones; take the juice of comfrey, meadowsweet, juice of plantain, flour of barley, juice of bark of oak, mix them, and put them as a plaster on the broken bones, and it will help them. Item, to make the drink of the broken bones, take roots of dog rose, wood avens, root of madder, roots of the raspberry bush, the strawberry plant, roots of meadow sweet, agrimony, tops of calamint, roots of the long aristolochia, and the base of the celandine, equal amounts of each, pound them, boil them in wine or water, dilute them with honey or sugar as for a syrup, make an ointment of the herbs, mix them into oil of poppy and the ointment known as marciaton, and, if it be rubbed on the bone after it has healed, it will stop the pain. Item, make a fomentation of the herbs in [gap: extent: one word?] with leaves of pellitory, leaves of bullace and leaves of red rose, and apply as a fomentation to the broken limb as we have said.