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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 195

195. Morella: i.e. the black nightshade; cold and dry in the second degree. If two drops of the juice of this herb be put in the ear, it will help with the pain caused in the ear by hotness. If a plaster of this herb be put on the forehead, it will help with headache caused by hotness. If the juice of the same herb be rubbed on a rash or on pimples caused by hotness, it will help with them. If the juice of the same herb and wheaten meal be put on erysipelas and canker, it will help with them. The same herb may be boiled in a tisane of barley and given against the hot impostumes that occur in the internal organs. Item, if a red flannel be dipped in the juice of this herb and applied over the spleen, it will stop its excessive heat; if it be applied to the joints, it will help with the podagra that comes from hotness, as we have said.