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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 243

243. Sene: hot and dry in the third degree; it is the foliage of a tree; it purges but little, and mostly it purges the melancholic humour and the viscous humours generally; it attracts from the extremeties, and, for that reason, it serves against mania,


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melancholia, quartan fever, splenetica passio, i.e. disease of the spleen, swooning, heartburn, pain of the nerves, sciatica, arthritis, podagra, gout of the hand, and the likes. It is our practice to put this herb in oximels, syrups, drinks, and plasters against the illnesses we have mentioned; a laxative medicine is sharpened by this: put two ounces of senna into them, and this will purge the peccant humours suitably.