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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 163
163. Lapasium acutum: i.e. curled dock; hot and dry in the third degree. If it be put as a plaster on the stomach, it will stop the pain and windiness. If it be boiled in milk and pig-meat as a potage, it will help with the flux of the abdomen that comes from coldness. If a stupe be made of the same herb in water, it will help with a scabby head and with every rash that comes on the skin. If it be boiled in wine and a sup of it be held in the mouth, it will help with toothache, and with swelling of the uvula. If the same herb be boiled in old wine or in cows' milk and drunk, this will help with pain in the stomach, the spleen and the intestines, and with the flux of dysentery. If its roots be boiled in pig lard, it will help with
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every swelling that comes from coldness. If it be boiled in wine and drunk, it will break urinary stones and induce menstruation. The juice of this herb together with oil of walnut, with pitchand fresh wax put through it, and this will help with any scabby head. If the same herb be boiled in oil and soap be put through it, it will help with any scabby head. If this herb be boiled in pig lard, it will ripen and burst apostumes; if the same herb be boiled in oil and wax be put in it, and it be rubbed as an ointment on the spleen, it will help with oppilation of the spleen. If the powder of this herb and powder of spurge be boiled in honey, it will help with the dropsy known as leucophlegmantia. If the juice of the same herb be taken with honey, it will kill all worms of the intestines. If the same juice with juice of rue be put in the nose, it will clean the brain of excess phlegmatic humour. If small discs be made of its roots and boiled in milk, this will help with asthma.