Part 792 of An Irish Materia Medica

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition

An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 178

178. Linga bouina: i.e. bugloss; hot in the first degree and wet in the second degree, according to Avicenna. If this herb be drunk regularly in wine, it will expel the burnt choleric humour. If the same herb be drunk in wine, it will stop loss of memory. If the same herb be boiled in wine, it will help with the hiccup that is caused by the melancholic humour. If the same herb be drunk in wine or in ale for twenty days, it will help with festering.

Of mace
of red clover
of manna
of pomegranate
of horehound
of marrow
of mastix
of honey
of pearls
of balm
of melicratum
of mint
of annual mercury
of yarrow
of bog myrtle
of myrrh

p.575

of black nightshade
of devil's bit scabious
of devil's bit scabious
of mummy
of mandragora
of myrobalans
of crab apple
of blackberry and mulberry
of spignel
of haws.