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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 126

126. Flamula: i.e. water crowfoot; hot and dry in the third degree; it serves well as a caustic, because it draws excessive wetness to the place where it is. To mature cold apostumes, put a plaster of the

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same herb and of pig lard on them. Some people give the same herb in a drink against podagra and quartan fever and the like. If an ointment of the same herb be rubbed on the sides, it will help with stranguria and dysuria. If the juice of the same herb be rubbed on the top of the head, it will help with the headache called migraine.