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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 204

204. Mesbili: .i. haws; cold and dry in the first degree; they comfort the stomach, stop a choleric defecation, and provoke the urine; they serve better for medical purposes than for food, because they nourish the body but slightly, and, so far as they nourish, it is the gross

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sanguine humour that they generate; they should be taken before meals, and then they will comfort the stomach and all the nervous organs likewise.
  1. Of watercress
  2. of mustard
  3. of flower of water lily
  4. of catmint
  5. of walnut
  6. of nutmeg
  7. of almonds