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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 265

265. Tuirbit: hot and dry in the third degree; it is the roots of a tree that grows in India; it purges the phlegmatic humour; it has the


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attractive virtue; it is of benefit against colic and every disease of the joints, and it sharpens every purgative that purges the phlegmatic humour. If powder be made of it and put in wounds, it will heal them and help with ulceration and proud flesh of the wounds; it is of this that the electuary that is named diaturbit is made; not more than two dragmas of this should be given.