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Post by Weeterrier on Mar 22, 2008 10:32:11 GMT
After I left Kew, a girl I worked with compiled a little booklet of medicinal plants extracted from very old 16th and 17th century herbals. I came across it last night while having a tidy. So I thought I would share one a day with you. I'll start with Helleborus niger, as we have their Easter brothers in the garden just now. Actually, I have a Christmas Rose just appearing. Must be a youth, rising late from it's bed.  "A purgation of blacke Hellebor is good for mad and furious men, for melancholike, dull and heavie persons, for those that are troubled with the falling sicknesse and for lepers" So if you have a big fat bi-polar husband with leprosy, you're sorted |
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Post by Dutchy on Mar 22, 2008 12:34:23 GMT
Just the thing I needed ;D
Thanks Wee.
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Post by Barbara on Mar 22, 2008 12:42:39 GMT
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Post by Amo on Mar 22, 2008 20:47:54 GMT
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Post by Weeterrier on Mar 23, 2008 10:05:32 GMT
After a Saturday night, this might be of use to our more "lively" members. Chrysanthemum parthenium 'Flore Pleno' Double Feverfew It is held to be a speciall remedy to helpe those that have taken Opium too liberally. It is used both in drinks, and bound to the wrists with bay salt, and the powder of glasse stamped together, as a most singular experiment against the ague. Beats two paracetomol for me after a night on the razzle. That Opium really knocks me out for the rest of the weekend.  |
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Post by Amo on Mar 23, 2008 10:09:28 GMT
It's certainly affected yea olde fpellingf. ;D ;D
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Post by Weeterrier on Mar 23, 2008 10:11:55 GMT
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Post by Jardack on Mar 23, 2008 19:39:34 GMT
 That made me laugh out loud 
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Post by Weeterrier on Mar 25, 2008 10:34:10 GMT
Perhaps I should have put this at the top. Hope half of you aren't deid after trying the potions.  WARNING You are advised not to experiment with these remedies without consulting more recent works on the subject, as some of the plants mentioned are now known to be poisonous.  Phillyrea angustifolia Mock Privet Being stamped and steeped in juice of Mullen and laide on, do make the haire red. Probably safer to stick to L'Oreal........................you know you're worth it |
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Post by Weeterrier on Apr 8, 2008 18:37:50 GMT
Here is one that would be harmless to try out, but I have a feeling that its efficacy might be in question.  Ranunculus repens, The Creeping Buttercup. If it be hanged in linnen cloth about the necke of him that is lunatike in the waine of the moone, then he shall foorthwith be cured. Wonder if it works for daft cats?  |
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Post by Amo on Apr 9, 2008 5:32:38 GMT
Cats seem to circumvent most attempts at making sense out of them. And I like the 'him' referral. ;D |
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Post by Weeterrier on Apr 9, 2008 8:26:57 GMT
Yeah, I liked that bit |
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