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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 252

252. Satuirion, priamiscus, leporina: i.e. the orchid; it is called "balls"; it is hot and wet in the third degree. The roots of that herb are suitable for medical purposes; the roots of the herb are like the testicles of an animal, and, for that reason, it is called "balls"; it powerfully increases the generative fluid in women and men; it gives a false colour to women's faces when rubbed on them. If the roots of this herb be boiled in vinegar and honey, or oximel, and drunk at the time of every canonical hour, it will help with disease of the joints.