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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 153

153. Hipia mador: chickweed170; hot and wet; it has the virtues of warming, opening, and relieving pain. Take this herb, boil it in water, then press it well, pound it with pig lard and butter, and put it as a plaster on the part of the body where the pain is, and this will stop any pain. Item, boil the same herb in its own juice, and put it hot on the belly, and this will stop knotting in the abdomen. Item, if juice of the same herb, together with juice of daisy, mother's milk, and flour of the meal of barley, be mixed together and put on the temples, this will stop their heat and pain, and will

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provoke sleep. Item, if a large quantity of this herb be dried and made into ashes, and a shampoo be made of those ashes, it will stop the hair from growing grey. Item, take the juice of chickweed, powder of cumin, and oat meal, boil these things well, put pig lard or unsalted butter through it, and apply it as a plaster to the wounds, and the other parts of the body, and it will help with the pain.