Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition
An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 228

228. Pira: i.e. the pears; they are cold and dry. If they be eaten after the meal, they will relieve the digestion. If they be eaten before the meal, they will relieve flux of the abdomen. If pears be pounded and boiled in rain water and applied as a plaster to the upper part of the stomach, they will stop the choleric vomiting. If the same plaster be put on the navel, it will stop the flux of the abdomen.


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