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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 154

154. Hipia minor: i.e. the scarlet pimpernel; hot and wet likewise; the water of this herb serves well to sharpen the sight, i.e., take the tops of this herb, eyebright, red rose, red fennel, foliage of rue, and foliage of celandine, pound them, boil them or extract the juice from them, put mother's milk or wine through them, and apply to the eyes, and this will sharpen the sight and clean the eyelashes. Item, take the juice of the same herb and add powder of copperas, and apply it to the eyes, and this will help with their mistiness, darkness, redness, pain and itch. Item, take the same herb and the soft shoots of the dog rose, pound them finely, put yolk of egg and a little saffron through it, and this will help with the redness and pain of the eyes if applied to them as a plaster. Item, the flower of the same herb and the flower of the red rose, pound them and mix them with white of egg, and apply them as a plaster to the eyelashes, and this will help likewise.


p.560

  1. Of hyssop
  2. of hypocistis
  3. of hypocistis
  4. of stinking iris
  5. of brooklime.