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This invaluable volume combines the knowledge of two herbal doctors, Nicholas Culpeper and W. J. Simmonite, to form an alternative medicine reference book.

Nicholas Culpeper was a famous physician in the seventeenth century and W. J. Simmonite was well-known for his innovative herbal remedies in the 1900s. Combining the studies of these two doctors provides a valuable reference book for those looking for alternative remedies for their ailments.

This volume features three parts:

- Selected Herbs—Their Description and Medicinal Properties

- Ailments and Diseases in General—Their Symptoms and Cure

- Useful Prescriptions Which Can Be Made Up At Home

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Herbal Medications

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	14 juillet 2020
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781528761406
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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THE SIMMONITE-CULPEPER HERBAL REMEDIES
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THE SIMMONITE-CULPEPER HERBAL REMEDIES
WILLIAM JOSEPH SIMMONITE, A.M .
Professor of Medicine and Mathematics and
NICHOLAS CULPEPER
Physician of the 17th Century
The Medicinal Property of Herbs and Directions for compounding the prescriptions of the Curative Medicines
W. FOULSHAM CO. LTD . 2-5 Old Bond Street, London, W.1
MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN Printed by W. J. Parrett, Ltd. Sittingbourne and Margate Bound by W. J. Mackay and Co. Ltd. Chatham Copyright , W. Foulsham and Co. Ltd. 1957
CONTENTS
Preface
Foreword
Part I Selected Herbs-Their Description and Medicinal Properties
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Part II Ailments and Diseases in General-Their Symptoms and Cure
Part III Useful Prescriptions which can be made up at Home
Index
PREFACE
Nature s Herbal remedies quickly relieve and have a final curative value for most human ailments. An outstanding example of this is the discovery of penicillin which was obtained from a natural mould growth.
This guide embodies the most exclusive and authentic remedies from the works of the two greatest herbalists ever known-William J. Simmonite, A.M., and Nicholas Culpeper.
Reference in the text to the planetary rulers of the herbs will be of interest to those readers who are acquainted with the science of Astrology. Other readers need not observe them.
FOREWORD
All herbs should be gathered when in full flower and when perfectly dry. They should then be well dried in the sun. For storage they should not be tied in bundles but kept in paper bags in dry places so that the herbs may retain their fragrance and colour as much as possible. For those who follow astrology the gathering of the herbs should be done at a time when the planet governing them is rising and angular.
When leaves only are required, they should be gathered when dry and fully grown. They should then be thoroughly dried in the sun and protected from night air. When they have lost their colour or scent, or have become inert, they are no longer fit for use. For those who follow astrology the leaves should not be gathered when the planet ruling the plant is in the Tenth, Eleventh or Twelfth House.
Tree barks should be gathered in the Spring when the sap is rising and the bark peels off easily. It is advisable not to gather more bark than what is needed for immediate use.
When roots are required they should be dug up when the plants have finished growing, cut into pieces and after they have been well dried, preserved in tins with tightly fitting lids and lined with paper.
Part I
SELECTED HERBS-THEIR DESCRIPTION AND MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Arranged in Alphabetical Order
ALEHOOF, OR GROUND-IVY-( Glechoma Hederacea )
S EVERAL counties give it several names, so that there is scarce a herb growing of that bigness, that has got so many. It is called Cat s-Foot, Ground-Ivy, Gill-go-by-ground, Gill-creep-by-ground, Turn-hoof, Hay-Maids, and Alehoof.
Descrip .-This well known herb lieth, spreadeth and creepeth upon the ground, shooteth forth roots at the corners of tender jointed stalks, set with two round leaves at every joint, somewhat hairy, crumbled, and unevenly dented about the hedges with round dents; at the joints, likewise, with the leaves towards the end of the branches, come forth hollow long flowers, of a blueish purple colour, with small white spots upon the lips that hang down. The root is small, with strings.
Place .-It is commonly found under hedges and on the sides of ditches, under houses, or in shadowed lanes and other waste lands in almost every part of the land.
Time .-They flower somewhat early, and abide a great while; the leaves continue green until winter, and sometimes abide, except the winter be very sharp and cold.
Government and Virtues .-It is a herb of Venus, and therefore cures the diseases she causes by sympathy, and those of Mars by antipathy; you may easily find it all the year, except the year be extremely frosty. The whole plant has a peculiar and strong smell. It should be gathered when in flower.
The juice when snuffed up will cure the headache when other remedies will fail. Dropped in the ear it doth wonderfully relieve the noise and singing of them, and helpeth the hearing which is impaired. When made into tea it is an excellent herb for disorders of the breast, lungs, spleen, belly, and the jaundice. The juice boiled with a little honey and verdigris cleanses fistula, sores, ulcers, itch, scabs, and other breakings out. Gather it and dry, and keep it by you. It clears thick ale.
ALEXANDER-( Smyrn ium Olusatrum )
I T is also called Alisander, Horse Parsley, Wild Parsley, and the Black Pot-herb; the seed of it is that which is usually sold in apothecaries shops for Macedonian parsley-seed.
Descrip .-It is sown in nearly all the gardens in Europe, and is so well known that it needs no further description.
Time .-It flowereth in June and July: the seed is ripe in August.
Government and Virtue .-It is an herb of Jupiter, and therefore friendly to nature, for it warmeth a cold stomach, and openeth a stoppage to the liver and spleen; it is good to move women s courses, to expel the after-birth, to break wind, to provoke urine, and helpeth the strangury; and these things the seeds will do likewise. Either of them boiled in wine, or bruised and taken in wine, is also effectual in the biting of serpents.
ANEMONE-( Anemone Nemorosa )
C ALLED also Wind-flower, because they say the flowers never open but when the wind bloweth. The seed also, if it bears any at all, flies away with the wind.
Place and Time .-They are grown in gardens, and flower at various times throughout the year according to the time of sowing. As for description, I shall pass it, being well known to all.
Government and Virtues .-It is under the dominion of Mars, being supposed to be a kind of crow-foot. The leaves provoke the terms mightily, being boiled, and the decoction drank. The body being bathed with the decoction of them, cures the leprosy: the leaves being stamped, and the juice snuffed up the nose, purgeth the head mightily; so doth the root, being chewed in the mouth, for it procureth much spitting, and bringeth away many watery and phlegmatic humors, and is therefore excellent for the legarthy. Being made into an ointment, and the eye-lids anointed with it, it helps inflammations of the eyes. The same ointment is excellent to cleanse malignant and corroding ulcers.
ANISEED-( Anisi Semina )
A NISEED may be purchased from the herbalist. Odour aromatic; taste sweetish, warm, and grateful. Its effects carminative. Used in dyspepsia and the tormina of infants (dose is from 15 grains to 1 scruple, bruised). It is governed by Jupiter.
Take 10 drops of the essential oil, and drop it on 2 drachms of loaf-sugar; powder this in a mortar, gradually adding while the rubbing to powder is going on 2 drachms of calcined magnesia. This powder should be well corked up, and as much as can lay on a sixpence given to the child when it cries or complains of pain the the bowels. Twice this quantity may be given when the child is costive.
Here you have a most valuable powder, which you may call Sugar of Anise.
ARUM-( Arum )
A RUM , or Cuckoo Pint, called also Ladysmock, and by children Lord and Lady. The root is the size and shape of a walnut, brown on the outside and white within; it lies deep, and the plant grows under hedges, and is of a sharp acid taste-but remember it is a poisonous plant. Under the Moon, the same as watercresses. The root is the part used, and may be dug up in autumn and buried in sand in the cellar or other dark place to preserve.
Preparation of Arum .-Take of the root of Arum, crushed, 1/2 pound; well refined Sugar, 1/2 pound; beat them together in a mortar till all are well mixed.
Dose .-1 drachm for gout, rheumatism, bad digestion, scurvy, loss of appetite, palsy, stone, obstruction in urinal vessels. To be taken every morning.
BALM-( Melissa officinalis )
B ALM is under Jupiter and Cancer, and flowers in July, at which time it should be gathered for use. It is an excellent stomachic; it braces the nerves, helps faintings, swoonings, and digestion, causes perspiration, and is therefore good in colds and headache, and when made into tea is used as a diluent in febrile diseases. Dose of the powder is 10 grains to 2 scruples.
Compound Spirit of Balm .-Take of the fresh leaves of Balm, 8 ounces; Lemon-Peel, bruised, 4 ounces; Nutmegs and Carraway-Seeds of each, 2 ounces; Cloves, Cinnamon, Angelica Root, of each 1 ounce. Distill all together with a quart of brandy. It must then be well preserved in bottles with glass stoppers. The herb bruised and boiled in a little linseed oil and laid warm on a boil, will ripen and break it.
BARLEY-( Hordei Semina )
T HIS is Pearl Barley, and is a plant under Saturn; consequently has cooling qualities as all Saturnine plants have. It is given as a diluent in fever affections, recent gonorrh a, hot urine, and strangury.
Barley Water or Decoction of Barley .-Pearl Barley, 2 ounces; Water, 4 1/2 pints. First wash with cold water. Pour upon the barley 1/2 pint of water, boil for a few minutes. Let this water be thrown away, and add the remainder of the water; boil down to one half and strain. The dose as much as you like. When converted into malt, the infusion or decoction is an excellent antiscorbutic, and for scrofulous ulcers and sores.
BETONY (WOOD)-( Betonia Officinalis )
T HIS is a native plant common in woods and moors; flowers in July, at which time or in June the herb should be gathered. It is under Jupiter in Aries, which rules diseases in the head, and this herb is made into snuff after the following manner: Take a handful of Betony, a handful of Marjoram, small portion of the root of Florentine, and a small portion of Eyebright. Made i