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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 240

240. Sarcacolla: i.e. the gum of a tree; hot and dry in the second degree. If it be mixed with white of egg and applied to the forehead and to the temples, it will stop the shedding of tears and the flux of blood from the nose. If powder of this gum be put in rose water for a night, and pressed the next morning, and it be applied as an eye-wash to the eyes, it will help with their darkness, and it will loosen their cataract. If it be put on coals and the fumes be allowed to the anus, it will help with tenesmus and the swellings of piles. If the powder of this gum be put in wounds, it will dry them.