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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 135

135. Filipindula: hot and dry in the third degree; its roots serve best for medical purposes; it grows in difficult mountain places; its roots retain their efficacy for ten years when stored, if gathered at the end of autumn; it has the diuretic virtue. If this herb be boiled in wine, it will break the urinary stones, and it is beneficial against stranguria and dysuria, and it is beneficial in clysters against ileus and colic. The powder of this herb with powder of the seed of fennel, if drunk in wine, will help with pain of the stomach. If the powder of the roots of this herb be taken in a drink, it will help with epilepsy, as Dioscorides says. The same powder serves well against oppilation of the liver and spleen. If this herb be put in a


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little bag and boiled in white wine, and put over the liver and spleen, it will open their oppilation and help them. If the powder of this herb be given in food or drink, it serves well against constrained breathing. If the same powder be put on red coals and the fumes received through a tube into the mouth, this will serve well against constrained breathing.