| 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 |
| vitriol |
y |
coporas |
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stramentum sutorium |
can kill if taken alone: purges head, kills worms: sulphurid acid |
y |
Culpeper p132, 130, English Medicines p78: Estes |
| vitrum |
n |
|
Isatis tinctoria |
|
a glass (10 oz.) |
or woad = glastum, for wounds or ulcers |
n |
Gerard 490 |
| walworte |
n |
ground elder |
Sambucus ebulus |
IV 173 |
dwarf elder |
root, leaf & seed: dropsie, spitting blood, easeth gout |
n |
Gerard 1426 |
| wardens |
n |
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pears |
n |
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| wax |
y |
cera, ae |
|
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softens, heats, given inwardly against bloody fluxes |
n |
Culpeper p51 |
| whey |
n |
|
|
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serum lactis |
cleanses choler & melancholy, good for skin; opens bowels |
n |
Culpeper p51 |
| woodruffe |
n |
|
Galium odoratum (Asperula odoratum) |
y |
sweet woodruff |
flower, stops fluxes of blood, |
n |
Gerard 1126 |
| woormewood (romane) |
n |
|
Artemisia pontica |
III 113 |
|
pleasant smell, good for weak stomach |
y |
Gerard 1097 |
| woormwood |
n |
|
Artemisia absinthium |
III 23 |
|
gout, paines of ears, dropsie: D- also keeps moths out of clothes |
y |
Wirsung |
| wormecakes |
n |
|
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cake-like medicines for worms: probably based on wormseed |
n |
Medicinal Receipts Research Group |
| xylobalsamum |
n |
wood |
Commiphora opobalsamum |
|
branches of balm of gilead, |
takes away aches, refreshes brain; from New World |
y |
Gerard 1529, Frampton f7v |
| xylobalsami |
n |
as above or |
|
|
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D- wood of balsam (Pharmaco-pinax p24 see lignum aloes) |
y |
Wirsung |
| yellow jaundice |
n |
icterus aurigo |
|
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see jaundice |
|
n |
Barrough p151 |
| yew |
n |
|
see taxus |
|
|
Gerard (1371) says berries not poisonous |
n |
|
| zarz. |
n |
|
Smilax spp |
|
sarsaparilla |
seeds and fruit eaten, moves urine causes troublesome dreams |
y |
Frampton |
| zibetti |
n |
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civet |
taken from cods of musk cat, for increasing human seed etc |
y |
Wirsung |
| zinziberis |
n |
see ginger |
Zingiber officinalis |
II 160 |
ginger |
roots, leaves & seeds: dissolves swellings & old hardnesses |
y |
Wirsung, Frampton |
| ziziphus |
n |
jujubes |
Ziziphus jujuba |
|
|
makes syrup for cough etc; |
y |
Barrough 433, Gerard 1502 |
