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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 249
249. Sol secium, sbonsa solis, ?eliotropia, sicorea, ingcuba, uerucaria: i.e. marigold; it is cold and dry, but in what degree is
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not to be found in Platearius' book; it serves for medical purposes when it is fresh; it has the ability to nourish against every poison; poisonous animals do not live in a garden in which it is planted. If a plaster of this herb on its own be put on the bite of a mad dog, the poison does not develop again thereafter. If this herb be drunk in wine or ale, it will open the oppilation of the liver and spleen. If a plaster of this herb be put on warts, it will help with them. If the flower of this herb be drunk in water for nine days, it will help with jaundice. If a plaster of the same herb be put on the apostume called anthrax, it will help with it.