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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 234

234. Rosa rubia: i.e. the red rose; cold in the first degree and dry in the second degree. If a plaster of this herb be put on a burn of fire or water, it will help with it. If the same plaster be put on the upper part of the stomach, it will stop any burning of the stomach that is caused by the increase of the choleric humour in it. If red rose be boiled in wine and drunk, it will stop the flux, and also the flux of menstruation. If fresh rose be boiled in water and pounded and applied as a plaster to the swelling, it will help with every swelling. If red rose be boiled in water and pounded, and white of egg be put through it, and it be applied as a plaster to the eyes, it will help with their redness. It is suitable for medical purposes whether dried or fresh. When the flower of the rose or the rose itself are dried, they retain their efficacy for three years; mel rosaceum is made of the rose, and this is how it is done: when this flower is put in honey for some time, and pressed thereafter, it will be mel rosaceum; oil of rose is made in the same way, put the same flower in oil for some time and press it thereafter, and this will be oleum rosaceum we dictated a chapter171 about the flower of the rose above.