RE: VMs: The text at the end... a possible link with the herbal?

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robert wrote:


> A short note on "nenuphar".
>
> The word is not French, it is Persian.  And
> its ultimate derivation is Sanskrit: nila utpala
> means "blue lotus".  It came to Europe from
> the Middle East.
>
> The most interesting fact about the nenuphar
> is that it is deep blue at dawn and dusk, but
> becomes pale blue at noon.  There are some
> excellent specimens in the small pool in
> the forecourt to the Cairo Museum.


Apparently medieval herbalists didn't differentiate by color, but
at least they still recognized it as a lilly:

"Nenufar is a water Lyllye, and groweth in waters, and hath a
white flower, the leafe therof lyeth alwayes aboue the water, it
is colde and moyst of operacion and a verye profitable herbe to
make syropes and drinkes for al maner of hote Agues and feuers
that commeth of great heate of the lyuer.  Also the flowers of
this herbe styped a night in water, and the water drunken in the
mornynge and the flowers put into the nosethrylles, taketh awaye
all the peyne in the head engendred of heate."

GC

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