EXQUISITE ORANGE PEOPLE DELICACY

>A fifteenth-century Irish manuscript contains, among other medical works (including parts of Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine), a tract completely dedicated to the use of animal dung for healing. Fortunately for us, it’s just been translated by Dr. Ranke de Vries.
>The good news about medicinal animal dung is that it would always have been plentiful in the medieval world. Different dungs are, of course, useful for different things. To heal kidney stones, ingest powdered mouse dung, or “place it as a poultice on the pelvis and it does the same.” For scabies, take duck dung and “mix it together with honey and linseed meal”, again using it as a poultice. Drinking pig dung with wine “staunches blood flow and heals pain of the side.” Swallow dung sprinkled into the eyes “disperses their fogginess, scale, and darkness” (de Vries speculates that this meant cataracts). More than just a popular insult, chicken dung is meant to be useful as “an antidote for the person who consumes poisonous deadly herbs, such as hemlock, henbane and the like”. There are remedies which use sheep dung, cow dung, and bull dung, but the most useful of all seems to have been goat dung.

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/eat-sht-and-dont-die/