| 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 |
| sacchari albissimi |
y |
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white sugar |
from Canaries or Madeira |
y |
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| sacculus |
n |
cf fotus |
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little bag of medicaments |
from herbs, flowers, seeds etc: either wet or dry |
n |
Barrough p410 |
| saffron |
n |
safferam |
Crocus sativus |
I 26 |
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against frensie, weakness of sight |
y |
Gerard 151-7 |
| sage |
n |
|
Salvia officinalis |
III 33 |
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good for head & brain, for coughs; helps palsy, cleanses blood |
n |
Gerard 766 |
| Saint John's wort |
n |
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Hypericum perforatum |
III 155 |
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leaves, flowers & seeds, for stone in bladder: use leaves on wounds |
n |
Gerard 541 |
| salis gemmae |
y |
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rock salt |
for cancers of mouth: sight: a preservative |
n |
Bullein 75, Banister 112 |
| salix alba |
n |
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Salix sp |
I 104 |
willow tree |
D- warm poultice for gout, analgesic, leaves, fruit & bark |
n |
Gerard 1389 |
| saltpetre |
y |
nitri (Pharm-pinax 21) |
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potassium nitrate |
n |
OED |
| sambucus ebulus |
n |
sambuc. |
Sambucus ebulus |
IV 173 |
dwarf elder |
roots & leaves: blacks hair, the leaves help gout, softens matrix |
n |
Gerard 1426 |
| sancti lignis |
n |
Lignum vitae |
Guaiacum sanctum |
|
holy wood |
good for dropsie, asthma, epilepsie, bladder etc |
y |
Gerard 1611 |
| sandalis / santalis |
n |
sandalwood |
Santalum album |
|
saunders wood |
white, yellow & black: for migraines, inflammations |
y |
Gerard 1586 |
| sanguis draconis |
n |
|
Dracaena draco or Demonorops sp |
|
see dragon's blood |
juice of tree: cools & binds |
y |
Wirsung, Culpeper p45 |
| santali citrini |
n |
yellow sanders |
Santalum freycinetianum |
|
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cools fevers; strengthens heart; causes cheerfulness |
y |
Culpeper p17 |
| sapone |
n |
bruisewort |
Saponaria officinalis |
II 163 |
|
used for bruises & cut fingers: also in French pox |
n |
Culpeper p35 |
| sarracenicus |
n |
Saracens woundwort |
Consolida saracenica |
|
European golden rod |
used in- or outwardly for wounds; for sore throats |
n |
Wirsung p597, Gerard 428-9 |
| sarracen's powder |
n |
pulvorum sarracenicum |
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n |
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| sarsparilla |
n |
Sarcaparillia |
Smilax spp |
|
climbing plant with berries |
roots used for continual pain in joints: used as tonic |
y |
Frampton f15v, Gerard 861 |
| sassafras |
n |
|
Sassafras officinale |
|
ague tree |
from N America; root & bark used; comforts liver, stays vomiting |
y |
Gerard 1524, Frampton f45v-56v |
| savery |
n |
|
Satureia montana or hortensis |
III 37 |
cf Cretan thyme |
docotion of with honey; helps asthma, intestinal worms, for wind |
n |
Gerard 577, Culpeper p35 |
| saxatiles |
n |
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of the nature of rock or stone |
n |
OED |
