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An Irish Version of Gualterus de Dosibus (Author: Walter de Agilon/Galterius Agilinus)
paragraph 62
Let the digestive, indeed, be diversified in accordance with the diversity of the members for should
the phlegmatic humors accumulate in the head and in the nerve centers as is obvious in paralysis, epilepsy,
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apoplexy and hemicrania (i.e. migraine) it is proper to digest them
with a medicine most appropriate for the brain and for the evil humor dominating there. Therefore, it is proper
to digest with this oxymel the phlegm which causes paralysis: take acorus, maratrum, lavender, hyssop,
polycaria major, every species of nasturtium, ground ivy, betony, origanum, pennyroyal, savory, avens, marjoram, peony, garden rue, ragwort, squills, of each item half a fistful; savin and primrose, of each three
whole fistfuls; honey, two pounds. Let an oxymel be
made from them.