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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 224

224. Pibinella: i.e. burnet; hot and dry in the third degree; it has the diuretic virtue, and it serves well against stranguria and dysuria. If it be boiled in wine with its roots and seed, it will stop urethritis. Item, if the roots of this herb be finely pounded and cream be put through it, and it be applied as a plaster to swollen glands, it will help with them.