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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 122
122. Emblici: i.e. fruits of a tree that grows in the Great World; they have the ability to purge the melancholic humour and the phlegmatic humour; they are of benefit against illnesses that generate
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high temperatures, such as quartan fever and the like. If powder be made of emblici and aloes, and oil put through them, and it be rubbed on the hair, it will not allow the hair to fall out, and it will cause it to grow. If powder of emblici be mixed with juice of mullein and put on the anus, this will stop the flux of blood of the piles; if it be put in the vagina, it will stop the women's flux of blood.