Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition
An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 166

166. Lansiolata: i.e. ribwort; cold and dry; it has the same efficacy and operation as plantain. If it be applied to a suppurating wound, it will help with it. If the same juice be put on erysipelas, it will help with it. If a plaster of the same herb and pig lard be applied to hot joints, it will help with them. If the juice of this herb be drunk before the paroxysm of quartan fever, it will help. If the same juice be drunk in water by a woman who has not expelled the afterbirth, the expulsion will occur promptly. If the juice of the same herb together with vinegar be rubbed on the feet after walking, it will ease the tiredness. If the juice of the same herb be given in wine or ale, it will help with lesions of the bladder. If the same herb be boiled in water, and the water be applied to burns of fire or water, it will help promptly. Take juice of ribwort, eyebright, juice of plantain, soft borax, a little alum, and white of egg, mix them, and put them in the wound, and this will help with festering and canker.


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