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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 131
131. Feniculus: i.e. fennel; hot in the second degree. If this herb be pounded and boiled in wine, it will help with every poison, and, likewise, it will help with disease of the kidneys. Against illness of the sight, put this herb in a drink, its tops, its seed, or its
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roots, and this medicine will be beneficial. If the same herb be pounded and put on the bite of a mad dog, it will cure the poisoning, and the poison will not recur. If the roots or seed of the same herb be boiled in wine or in ale, it will provoke menstruation and the urine, it will help with pain of the stomach, and it will stop vomiting. Item, against any swelling from coldness, caused by a fall or a blow, if a plaster of this herb with pig lard be put on it, it will cure it. If the seed of this herb be collected in the beginning of autumn, it will retain its efficacy for two years. If the roots of this herb be collected in the beginning of the spring, those roots will retain their efficacy for half a year. If the skin of the same roots be boiled in water and given to drink, it will open the oppilation of the liver and spleen. If the same water be given against pain of the stomach caused by windiness, it will give relief. Item, if three scruples of powder of spurge be given with juice of fennel, it will help with dropsy which is accompanied by fever. Item, if the juice of fennel be put in a bronze vessel for fifteen days, and put as an eye-wash on the eyes, it will dissolve the film or fog that is on the eyes.