Herbal simples
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共 160 题- Transcribed by Ruth Hart ruthhart@twilightoracle.com
- HERBAL SIMPLES APPROVED FOR MODERN USES OF CURE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- CONTENTS.
- Knapweed, the Lesser . . . 296
- Quince . . . 452
- AGRIMONY.
- ANISEED.
- APPLE.
- ARUM--THE COMMON.
- ASPARAGUS.
- BALM.
- BARBERRY.
- BARLEY.
- BASIL.
- BETONY.
- BLACKBERRY.
- BROOM.
- There is a tradition in Suffolk and Sussex:--
- BRYONY.
- BUCKTHORN.
- BUTTERCUP.
- CABBAGE.
- CAPSICUM (CAYENNE).
- CARAWAY.
- CHAMOMILE.
- CARROT.
- CELERY.
- CENTAURY.
- CHICKWEED.
- CHRISTMAS ROSE--BLACK HELLEBORE.
- CLOVER.
- CLUB MOSS.
- COLTSFOOT.
- COMFREY.
- CORIANDER.
- CUMIN.
- CURRANTS.
- DAFFODIL.
- Herrick alludes in his _Hesperides_ to the Daffodil as death:--
- DAISY.
- DANDELION.
- DATE.
- DOCK.
- ELDER.
- ELECAMPANE.
- The _inula_ was noticed by Horace, _Satire_ viii., 51:--
- EYEBRIGHT.
- FENNEL.
- FERNS.
- An old popular proverb says about this Bracken:--
- FEVERFEW.
- FIGS.
- FLAX (LINSEED).
- FOXGLOVE.
- A clever paraprase of the word Onion may be read in the lines:--
- GOOSEBERRY.
- GOOSEFOOT.
- GOOSEGRASS.
- Thus, in the old Latin hymn, she sings right sweetly:--
- GOUTWEED.
- GRASSES.
- GROUNDSEL.
- HOP.
- Hops were first brought to this country from Flanders, in 1524:--
- HYSSOP.
- JUNIPER.
- Virgil alludes to the Juniper as Cedar:--
- LAVENDER.
- LEMON.
- Virgil said of the fruit generally:--
- LILY OF THE VALLEY.
- Shakespeare says:--
- The "n" in later writers has been changed into "m."
- MALLOWS.
- Clare tells playfully of the fairies, borne by mice at a gallop:--
- And recalls the time when he sat as a boy:--
- MARJORAM.
- MISTLETOE.
- Old Tusser says:--
- And again:--
- MULBERRY.
- Horace recommends that Mulberries be gathered before sunset:--
- MULLEIN.
- MUSHROOMS.
- In Essex there is an old saying:--
- MUSTARD.
- NETTLE.
- OAT.
- ORANGE.
- ORCHIDS.
- PARSLEY.
- PARSNIP.
- PEA AND BEAN.
- PEACH.
- PEAR.
- PELLITORY.
- PERIWINKLE.
- PIMPERNEL.
- PINK.
- PLANTAIN.
- POPPY.
- POTATO.
- PRIMROSE.
- QUINCE.
- RADISH.
- RAGWORT.
- RASPBERRY.
- RICE.
- ROSES.
- ROSEMARY.
- In _Romeo and Juliet_, Father Lawrence says:--
- RUE.
- SAGE.
- SAINT JOHN'S WORT (_see page_ 287)
- SAVIN.
- SELFHEAL.
- SHEPHERD'S PURSE.
- SILVERWEED.
- SKULLCAP.
- SLOE.
- SOAPWORT.
- SOLOMON'S SEAL.
- SOUTHERNWOOD.
- SPEEDWELL.
- SPINACH.
- SPURGE.
- STITCHWORT.
- STRAWBERRY.
- SUCCORY.
- SUNDEW.
- SUNFLOWER.
- An old rhyme declares, for some unknown reason:--
- TAMARIND.
- TANSY.
- TARRAGON.
- THISTLES.
- THYME.
- Horace has said concerning Wild Thyme:--
- TOADFLAX.
- TURNIP.
- Dr. Johnson's famous illustration of false logic ran thus:--
- TURPENTINE.
- VALERIAN.
- VERBENA.
- VINE.
- VIOLET.
- VIPER'S BUGLOSS.
- WALLFLOWER.
- WALNUT.
- WART-WORT, OR WART-WEED.
- WOODRUFF.
- WOODSORRELL (_See also "Docks."_)
- WORMWOOD.
- YARROW.
- YEW.
- The witches in _Macbeth_ include it in their accursed brew:--
- Spenser says:--
- MONTHLY ILLNESSES, _see_ MENSTRUATION--