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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 245
245. Salisit: i.e. willow; cold and dry in the second degree, foliage, flower and wood. If the flower of this tree be boiled in vinegar and
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rubbed on people with excess heat of fever, it will give them relief. If the branches of this tree be put over the bed of fever patients, and pure spring water be sprinkled on the patient, it will give him relief. The water of the flowers of this tree greatly comforts people with tertian fever and causon; the foliage of this tree serves in cooling plasters to stop poison and pain of the organs, as we have said before.