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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 115
115. Elena campana: i.e. elecampane; hot (and dry) in the third degree, and wet in the first degree. If this herb be boiled in wine or ale, it will provoke menstruation and abortion, and also the urine. If a plaster of the root of this herb be put on the belly, it will stop ileus and colic. If the same herb be boiled in wine and honey together and put as a plaster on the kidneys, it will help with pain of the kidneys. Item, take the roots of the same herb and make a powder of them, and boil them in honey until thick, and drink a spoonful fasting in the morning and also before going to bed, and this will help with a cough. This herb has the comforting and
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consuming virtues, and the virtue of cleansing the nerves. Boil this herb in wine against pain and windiness of the stomach. If the roots of the same herb be dried in the beginning of summer, it will retain its efficacy for a year. Item, if the powder of this herb be boiled in water with barley water and liquorice, and powder of cinamon and sugar be added, it will be of great benefit against illness of the respiratory organs. If the same herb be boiled in wine and oil, and applied as a plaster on the navel, it will help with ileus, colic, and stranguria.