| 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 |
| bacca/e |
n |
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berry or pearl |
n |
Wirsung |
| baccabunga |
n |
see beccabunga |
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| baccul |
n |
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lozenges shaped like short rolls |
n |
Lex. Med. |
| bal[a]ustia |
n |
wild pomegranate |
Punica granatum |
I 111 |
large red flower of pomegranate |
flower, juice & skin astringent, & binding; fastens teeth, strengthens gums |
y |
Wirsung, Gerard 1451 |
| balme apple |
n |
balsamina |
Momordica balsamina |
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leaves & oil from fruit: heals ruptures, cures haemorrhoides |
n |
Gerard 362 |
| balneo mariae |
n |
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place glass vessel in container with cold water then boil to reduce liquid in inner container |
n |
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| balsamo peruv. |
n |
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Myroxylon balsamum |
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for healing wounds, heals shortness of breath, pain reliever |
y |
Frampton ff 7-9v, 76 |
| balsamum |
n |
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Commiphora sp. (eg gileadensis) |
I 19 |
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balsam tree, (gum of); from Egypt & Indies: for coughs, & colic |
y |
Wirsung |
| barbery |
n |
berbery bush |
Berberis vulgaris |
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berries cooling & astringent, throat gargles: bark also used. |
n |
Wirsung |
| barley |
n |
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Hordeum sativum [or vulgare] |
II 86 |
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use as simple or in compounds; internally or externally |
n |
Gerard 70-3 |
| barley cream |
n |
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barley & almonds: given in hot fevers & for sick people |
n |
Gerard 1445 |
| barme |
n |
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fermenting agent: taken from the froth on top of beer |
n |
OED |
| barrowes grease |
y |
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fat from castrated boar |
n |
OED |
| basilicone |
n |
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compound ointment |
includes resin, pitch, turpentine, wax: to clean wounds |
n |
Wirsung, Culpeper 1654 p298 |
| beanflower water |
n |
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Vicia faba |
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bindeth the belly: + oxymel on bruises, stings & bites |
n |
Gerard 1210-1 |
| beccabunga, baccabung |
n |
water pimpernell |
Veronica beccabunga |
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brooklime |
eaten in salad is anti-scorbutic; boiled can be applied as fomentation |
n |
Gerard 621 |
| benjoin. |
n |
benzoin |
Styrax benzoin |
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resin |
very expensive, used in fuming candles & soap: diaphoretic |
y |
Wirsung |
| bet[t]ony |
n |
vetonica |
Stachys officinalis |
IV 1 |
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for falling sickness, roots emetic, leaves for women with disease of the mother |
n |
Culpeper p21, Allen 2004 |
| bez[o]ar stone |
y |
occidental & oriental |
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notable restorer of nature, good in fevers, pestilences |
y |
Culpeper p54, Frampton |
| bezoar stone |
y |
occidental |
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from goats |
see Frampton f120v-133 |
y |
Frampton f98-101 |
