| Word From Document |
Chemical or Mineral? |
Other Contemporary Name or Alternative Spelling |
Modern Botanical: Stace/Grin |
Dioscorides ref |
Alternative Names |
explanation: D = Dioscorides |
Imported |
Source of Info |
| absertives |
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purging or scouring, cleanse pores, clean & wipe away humors. |
n |
Banister 134 |
| absinth |
n |
wormwood |
Artemisia absinthium |
III 23 |
or wormseed |
D-astringent & warming, purging, used with honey |
n |
Culpeper p18, Gerard 1097-8 |
| acanthi or acantha |
n |
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Acanthus mollis |
III 175 |
bear's breech or foot |
roots, applied or drunk. When drunk provokes urine & stop belly |
n |
Gerard 1148 |
| accidul. |
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| aceto scillitico |
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vinegar distilled with squills |
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| acetosae |
n |
dock |
Rumex acetosa |
II 114 |
common sorrel |
seeds, roots, leaves: mouthwash, jaundice settle stomach |
n |
Gerard 388 |
| acetosell. |
n |
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Oxalis acetosella |
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wood sorrel |
see above, similar |
n |
Gerard 398 |
| acetositatis citri |
n |
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| acetum |
y |
aceti |
vinegar |
V 13 |
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Many things added: antiseptic; mild diuretic. D- to cool & bind |
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| achor |
n |
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kind of ulceration to head, like scurf |
n |
Epitome Pt 2 p52 |
| acorus |
n |
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Acorus calamus |
I 18 |
sweet flag |
roots, a tonic: D- warming: for women's disorders, digestive problems |
y |
Culpeper p5, |
| acu. Punct. |
n |
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| adeps, adipis |
y |
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II 76 |
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lard or fat: basis of salves & ointments |
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| affundentus |
n |
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| agaricus |
n |
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Polyporus officinale |
III 1 |
agarick: fungus on larch tree |
drawing and drying, purges flegm, best with other things |
y |
Culpeper, Gerard 1365 |
| agrestil |
n |
Bulbus agrestis |
Colchicum autumnale |
IV 84 |
colchicum |
Roman name for autumn crocus; given to those who have gout |
n |
Gerard 162 & 4 |
| agrymony |
n |
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Agrimonia eupatoria |
IV 41 |
agrimony |
applied to cuts, or drunk for dysentery |
n |
Gerard 713 |
| ague |
n |
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intermittent fever; quartan = 72 hr interval. tertian = 48 hour interval, i.e. every 3 days: fit generally starts at noon. quotidian = 24 hour interval; |
n |
Lex. Med. |
| alembick |
n |
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still used professionally or at home to make medicines & waters |
n |
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| alycyrrhisa |
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