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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 128

128. Fragaria: i.e. the strawberry plant; this herb is cold and dry; it serves well for lesions of the lungs consumption and the illness called phthisis: take the root of madder, root of tormentil, the strawberry plant, and roots of plantain, equal amounts of each, pound these herbs, make a soup of them, and give it in warm wine to drink, and this will heal the lesions of the lungs, and it will help with flux of the abdomen. Item, take this herb, the bilberry plant, roots of the three brambles, calamint, madder (its root), roots of wild valerian, wild thyme, roots of agrimony, and cinquefoil, equal amounts


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of each, boil in worts and clarify with honey and white of egg, and this will stop any flux of the abdomen and women's piles, as we have said.