| 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 |
| radic china |
n |
see china |
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| rad polipodi |
n |
see polypody |
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roots |
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| raisons |
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can make into poultice for gout, rottings about the joints, gangrene |
n |
Gerard 877 |
| raisons of the sun |
n |
(not currants) |
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y V 3 |
sun-dried |
for infirmities of breast & liver: gently cleanse |
y |
Culpeper p41 |
| raisins alegante |
n |
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raisins of Alicante (best quality) |
lubricate body, lift emotions |
y |
Medicinal Receipts Research Group |
| ranum |
n |
frog |
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Wirsung |
| rapontica |
n |
raponticke / rapontium |
Rheum hybridum |
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Pontish rhubarb; or root of greater centory |
y |
Wirsung, Pharmaco-pinax p20 |
| rasuras |
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shredded: shavings |
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| red fish |
n |
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male salmon in spawning season |
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OED |
| regimen |
n |
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regere = rule |
therapeutic system, typically involving diet |
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| reines |
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kidneys |
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| rhabarbarum |
n |
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Rheum rhababarum |
III 2 |
medicinal rhubarb |
jaundice, spleen, purging; use roots, to treat dropsie |
y |
Wirsung & Gerard 395 |
| rhabarbi-monachorum |
n |
see mon. above |
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monks or bastard rhubarb |
purges or cleanses blood, against bloody flux |
n |
Culpeper p12, Gerard 391 |
| rheume / reume |
n |
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a defluxion that falls from the head into throat or breast |
n |
Skilful Physician 137 |
| rhod[i]um lignum |
n |
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Amyris balsamifera |
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candle wood |
increases milk in nursing women; for ulcers of mouth |
y |
Culpeper p17, Gerard 1625 |
| ribes |
n |
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Ribes rubrum or R. nigrum |
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currants |
cold & dry: reduces feverish heats, represses choler |
n |
Gerard 1594 |
| ridnet |
n |
rennet |
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when distilled, opens obstructions in lungs; treats scurvy, epilepsy etc |
n |
Salmon 1693 p664 |
| rob |
n |
roob |
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an inspissated juice |
juice thickened by heat & put in medicines |
n |
Culpeper p95, Pharmaco-pinx p25 |
| rock alum |
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roch alum |
prepared in Italy from alum stone; stiptic |
n |
Culpeper p53 |
| rose (red) |
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petals cool, bind, strengthen, restore consumptives |
n |
Gerard 1259-1271, Culpeper p39 |
