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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 272

272. Tamuirindi, oxifencia, dactilus asetosus, dactilus indicus: the fruit of a tree; cold and dry within the second degree; it purges the choleric humour principally, and the other burnt humours secondarily, since it purges the choleric humour from the stomach and intestines, and from the liver; it is suitable against jaundice, oppilation of the

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liver and spleen, and against tertian fever. If juice of fumiter and tamarind be given to drink, it will help with the rash that comes on the skin, and also with the scabby head, as we have said.