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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 123

123. Eruca: i.e. the greater water-parsnip; hot and dry in the third degree; it has the diuretic virtue, and it operates well to clear the passages of the bladder. If roots of the greater water-parsnip be boiled in honey, it will help with the cough. If the juice of this herb and honey be boiled together and taken, it will open the oppilation of the liver and spleen. If the same herb be boiled in wine and put as a plaster on the head when it is wounded, this will draw broken bones out of it, and also any contamination. Macer says whoever makes use of these roots, it will increase the sperm and the generation, and, if it be taken with lettuce and seed of fennel it will greatly serve likewise.

  1. Of iron
  2. of sediment of iron
  3. of the water crowfoot
  4. of fenugreek
  5. of strawberry
  6. of the ash-tree
  7. of barley
  8. of fennel

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  10. of stinking mayweed
  11. of leaven
  12. of gall
  13. of dropwort
  14. of wild valerian
  15. of St. John's wort
  16. of juniper berries
  17. of figs
  18. of tartar