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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 142

142. Galbanum: i.e. the juice of a herb; Platearius says that it is the gum of a tree; it has the attractive, dissolving, consuming, and maturing virtues. If three dragmas of it be given in a raw egg or in a tisane of barley, it will help with asthma. If the same gum be put on red coals and the fumes received in the nose, this will help with


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lithariga. If the fumes be allowed to the vagina, this will help with hysteria. If it be put on a painful tooth, it will help with the pain. If pills be made of galbanum and honey, and taken, it will help with every worm of the stomach and intestines, as we have said.