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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 102
102. Dactulus: i.e. the fruit of a tree that is hot and wet in the second degree; it serves well against the dry cough; if the stone that
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is in this fruit be pounded and given to those who have discharge from the abdomen, it will help them. If the same stone be put under the ashes and applied to painful teeth, it will powerfully help with the pain, when it comes from coldness; lay people say that those who wear it at the throat will not drown.