Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition
An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 132

132. Feniculus porsinas: i.e. stinking mayweed; hot in the second degree and dry in the third degree. If it be drunk in water, it will help with anthrax; this herb is foul-smelling, as the following proverb says: ‘Fetet amarissa, redolet similiter camamilla’, i.e. just as the chamomile is supreme in good smells, so this herb is supreme in foul smells.


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