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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 107

107. Diureticam: i.e. every herb that has the virtue of provoking the urine and breaking the stone, such as melons, water melons, cucumber, gourd, seed of fennel and of anise, parsley and alexanders, roots of burnet, carrot, watercress, seed of bog-myrtle, bleeding mycena toadstool, berries of ivy, gromwell; these are the cold diuretics, that is, endive, scariole, chicory, sorrel, liverwort, houseleek, flower of water lily, seed of poppy. The following are the wet diuretics: liquorice, seed of mallow, seed of white poppy, roots of water lily, the four great cold seeds, that is, seed of water melon, melon, gourd, water lily, and the likes. These are the medicines that break the urinary stones: the lower part of foxtail grass, hart's


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tongue fern, spikenard, liquorice, knawel, bruscus i.e. broom, lady's bedstraw, berries of ivy, and the likes.