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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 90
90. Consolida media: i.e. the ox-eye daisy; it is hot and wet; it has the comforting virtue against the oppilation of the liver and the spleen. Take an egg, the ox-eyed daisy, wood sage, roots of fennel and parsley, tops of mercury, hart's tongue fern, maidenhair spleenwort, roots of burnet and of sea holly, equal amounts of each, boil them in good worts, put honey and yeast into it, and drink it like any drink. Dioscorides says that this herb serves well against phthisis, hectic fever, and heartburn: take the ox-eye daisy, tops of
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hyssop, melissa, brooklime, lodestone, coltsfoot, violet, and water betony, equal amounts of each, boil them in a tisan of barley, put. honey and sugar in it, and give it to drink frequently for a day and a night. Item, to make a chest salve, in butter of the month of May put powder of liquorice, anise, cinnamon, and put lard of chicken or of capon in the salve, and drink it in goat's milk, and rub it on the chest and on the flanks.