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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 183

183. Marubium: i.e. horehound; hot in the second degree and dry in the third degree. If this herb be boiled in wine or in mead together with root of the yellow flag, this will help with the phthisis and weakness that are caused by cold matter. If the same herb be rubbed in water and a drink of it be given to a woman who is in labour, she will give


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birth to the baby forthwith. If the same herb together with raw honey be put in wounds, it will clean them and cure the festering. If the same herb be rubbed in wine, and it be drunk, this will cure the headache that is caused by coldness. Item, if an eye wash be made of the juice of the same herb together with wine and honey, it will clean cataract of the eyes. Item, if the juice of the same herb be put warm in the ear, it will expel the worms of the ear; it is not good for people with disease of the kidneys or of the bladder to use this herb. If this herb be boiled in wine and given against ileus and colic, it will help with them. If the same herb be drunk in wine, it will induce the afterbirth promptly.