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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 146
146. Gariofilus: i.e. cloves; hot and dry in the third degree; it is the fruit of a tree that grows in India; it should be collected in summer; it retains its efficacy for six years; it is best when it has a sharp taste; it has the comforting and dissolving virtues; it
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greatly soothes the digestion if it be boiled with wine and mastix.
If they be boiled with seed of fennel they greatly comfort the digestion, and the stomach when it is windy. If they be used regularly, they will comfort the digestion, the brain, the stomach, and the intestines, it is beneficial against swooning, and it stops vomiting; to use them and to smell them comforts the brain. If they be boiled in wine and applied to the nose of a woman who suffers from displacement of the uterus, it will help her. Item, take cloves, twelve nails of them, and a dragma of mastix, and boil them in rose water in a glass vessel, give it warm to drink, and this will help with flux of the abdomen.