From: Ethnophytotherapeutical research in the high Molise region (Central-Southern Italy)
Agent | Method of employment and use | Bibliographical use (references) | Field use (frequency of citation) |
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Badger | Coat, with splinters of brass under the halters of the horses to protect them from the evil eye | Conti [2] | Â |
Hare's blood | Pneumonia and pleurisy. It is kept dried, dissolved in lukewarm water (internal use) | Moffa [4] | Â |
 | Spread on painful joints, especially the shoulder |  | 1(PI) |
Cinders | On potato plants to protect them from parasites | Â | 4(PI) |
Cobwebs | Applied fresh to wounds as an haemostatic and cicatrising agent | Moffa [4] | 1(PI) |
Domestic mouse (!!) | As food for the incontinence, skinned and cooked | Â | 6 (PI) |
Ass Dung | Dried and powdered on bleeding wounds | Moffa [4] | Â |
Egg white | Whisked until stiff, it was mixed with lime and wrapped on fractured limbs as plaster | Â | 4 (PG) |
 | For sprains and haematomas, whisked until stiff, applied to the skin and bound |  | 4 (CH) 4 (VG) |
Fat | Fat of fox or horse applied to pimples to bring them to a head | Conti [2] | Â |
 | Hen fat spread on sores of the neck of oxen |  | 4 (PI) |
Hard eggs and March "ricotta" | As food in cases of dysentery | Conti [2] | Â |
Leeches | Applied to the skin against typhus | Â | 2 (CH) |
Salt water | External cysts, the skin was always kept wet | Â | 4 (PI) |
Snail ("ciammarùca") | The mucilage was applied to serious skin inflammations |  | 3 (PI) |
Soot | De-wormer for children, dissolved in water (internal use | Â | 4 (VG) |
 | On wounds as an anti-parasitic (veterinary use) |  | 4 (VG) |
 | As a repellent, with wood cinder in molehills |  | 6 (PI) |
Sl oughing of snake (old skin) | Crumbled and mixed with food: for women with difficult pregnancy (magic use) | Â | 4 (CH) 6 (PI) |
 | Put in a small bag as an amulet against evil eye |  | 4(PI) |
Wax of ear | On pimples (applied with Hyoscyamus sp. leave) | Pierro [3] | Â |