| 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 |
| alkamet / alkanet |
n |
alkanna |
Alkanna tinctoria |
IV 23 |
wild bugloss |
use root & leaves; binding; decoction for jaundice |
y |
Culpeper p22, Gerard 801 |
| alkek. Alkekengi |
n |
halicabacum |
Physalis alkekengi |
IV 72-3 |
winter cherry |
cold & dry: decoction against stopping of urine etc |
n |
Gerard 342 |
| alkermes: |
y |
alchermes |
|
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see also kermes |
compound including ambergrise & kermes: for heart |
y |
Gerard 1343 |
| almonds, bitter |
n |
|
Prunus dulcis |
I 123 |
almond, |
hot & dry: remove stoppings, good for pain in the sides |
y |
Gerard 1445 |
| almonds, sweet |
n |
amygdalus dulce |
Prunus dulcis |
|
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dry & hot: use in barley cream, oil mitigates pain |
y |
Gerard 1445 |
| aloes |
n |
|
Aloe vera or other species |
III 22 |
|
purges choler and phlegm, strengthens liver, not for agues |
y |
Culpeper p45 |
| aloe hepatica |
n |
|
|
|
in colour like the liver |
juice of herb, bitter: use as powder in rain water |
y |
Wirsung p8 |
| althea |
n |
|
Althea officinalis |
III 146 |
mallow |
leaves, roots & seeds: ease pain, anti inflammatory etc |
n |
Gerard 935 |
| alum rup[eum] |
n |
in rock form |
|
V 106 |
alum |
heats, binds & purges;used in gargarisms & for eyes etc |
y |
Culpeper p53 |
| aluminis phlegmat |
y |
flegm of alum |
|
y |
burnt alum |
for wounds |
n |
Wirsung |
| alumine stillile |
n |
|
|
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distilled alum water |
used as an opthalmick for the eyes |
n |
Medicinal Receipts Research Gp., Http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk |
| ambergreese |
y |
ambre grise |
|
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from sperm whale:or gum-Frampton f82v-86v |
heats & dries; strengthens nerves & brain: |
y |
Culpeper p53 |
| ambrae |
y |
|
|
II 81, I 83 |
amber |
sweet smelling earth; heats & dries; helps violent coughs |
n |
Wirsung |
| ambrae |
n |
|
Liquidambar orientalis |
|
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see storax |
n |
|
| amygdal |
n |
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kernil at the root of the tongue subject to swelling, tonsil |
n |
Pliny 1601, Book 21 Chapter 19 |
| amygdalus |
n |
see almonds |
Prunus dulcis |
I 123 |
almond tree |
amara = bitter: removes stoppings of liver |
y |
Gerard 1445-6 |
| ancha |
n |
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thigh |
n |
Lex. Med. |
| anethi |
n |
anethum |
Anethum graveolens |
|
dill |
decoction engenders milk in breasts, increases seed |
n |
Gerard 1033 |
| angelica [water] |
n |
|
Angelica archangelica (A. officinalis) |
|
garden angelica |
seeds used against colick, etc: roots open liver & spleen |
n |
Wirsung, Gerard 999 |
| anisi/e |
n |
|
Pimpinella anisum |
III 56 |
aniseed |
hot & dry: headache: + milk for dropsie, falling sickness in infants |
y |
Wirsung, Gerard 1035 |
