VMs: Culpeper Correction

[Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings to the list

I just realized I need to amend my date for Culpeper's
publication:  That would be 1651, not 1551.

Some of us can write without need for corrections. . .
my apologies for not being up to VMs standards!

Warmly,

Pam

--- Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Jean and all:
> 
> Here is a quote from Culpeper, who published on the
> medicinal uses of herbs in 1551.  It might be
> interesting to see which of the identified herbs
> from
> the VMs were known to Culpeper, and which planetary
> rulerships he assigned to them.  There would
> probably
> be some work involved in identifying what he might
> have called the VMs plants which have been
> identified
> by current scientific names.  He also lists what
> each
> plant is good for in a different place, so perhaps a
> study of that material might help us understand the
> intended purpose of the experiment/treatment/ritual
> the VMs proposes.
> 
>   
> 
> "[C] 
> 
> A Catalogue of the Herbs and Plants &c. in this
> Treatise, apropriated to their several
> PLANETS. 
> Under Saturn are,
> 
> Barley
> Red Beets
> Beech-tree 
> Bifoyl, or Twayblade 
> Birdsfoot 
> Bistort, or Snakeweed 
> Blewbottles 
> Buckshorn-Plantane 
> Wild Campions 
> Pilewort 
> Cleavers, or Goosgrass 
> Clowns Woundwort 
> Comfry 
> Cudweed, or Cottonweed 
> Sciatica Cresses 
> Crosswort 
> Darnel 
> Doddar 
> Epithimum 
> Elm-tree 
> Osmond Royal 
> Fleawort 
> Flixweed 
> Fumitory 
> Stinking Gladwin 
> Goutwort 
> Wintergreen 
> Haukweed 
> Hemlock 
> Hemp 
> Henbane 
> Horstail 
> Knapweed 
> Knotgrass 
> Medlar-tree 
> Moss 
> Mullein 
> Nightshade 
> Polypodium 
> Poplar-tree 
> Quince-tree 
> Rupture-wort 
> Rushes 
> Solomons-Seal 
> Sarazens Confound 
> Service-tree 
> Spleenwort, or Cetrach 
> Tamaris 
> Melancholly-Thistle 
> Blackthorn 
> Throughwax 
> Tutsan, or Parkleaves 
> Woad.
> 
> Under Jupiter are,
> 
> Agrimony 
> Alexanders 
> Asparagus 
> Avens 
> Bay-tree 
> White Beets 
> Water-Bettony 
> Wood-Bettony 
> Bilberries 
> Borrage 
> Bugloss 
> Chervil 
> Sweet Cicely 
> Cinkfoyl 
> Costmary, or Alecost 
> Dandelyon 
> Docks 
> Bloodwort 
> Dog, or Quich-grass 
> Endive 
> Hartstongue 
> Hysop 
> Housleek, or Sengreen 
> Liverwort 
> Lungwort 
> Sweet Maudlin 
> Oak-tree 
> Red Roses 
> Sage 
> Sauce alone, or Jack by the Hedg 
> Scurvy-grass 
> Succory 
> Our Ladies Thistles.
> 
> Under Mars are,
> 
> Arsesmart 
> Asarabacca 
> Barberry-bush 
> Sweet Bazil 
> Bramble-bush 
> Briony 
> Brooklime 
> Butchers-broom 
> Broom 
> Broomrape 
> Crowfoot 
> Cuckoopint, or Wake-Robin 
> Cranebil 
> Cotton-Thistle 
> Flax-weed, or Toad-flax 
> Fursebush 
> Garlick 
> Hawthorn 
> Hops 
> Naddir 
> Masterwort 
> Mustard 
> Hedg-Mustard 
> Mettles 
> Onions 
> Pepperwort, or Dittander 
> Carduus Benedictus, in the Epistle 
> Rhadish 
> Horse Rhadish 
> Rhubarb 
> Rapontick 
> 
> [C verso]
> 
> Bastard Rhubard 
> Thistles 
> Star-thistle 
> Tobacco 
> Wolly Thistle 
> Treacle Mustard 
> Mithridate Mustard 
> Wold, Weld, or Dyers Weed 
> Wormwood.
> 
> 
> Under the Sun are, 
> 
> Angelica 
> Ash-tree 
> Bawm 
> One-blade 
> Burner 
> Butter-bur 
> Chamomel 
> Chelondine 
> Centaury 
> Eyebright 
> St. Johns wort 
> Lovage 
> Marigolds 
> Misleto 
> Peony 
> St. Peters wort 
> Pimpernel 
> Rosa Solis 
> Rosemary 
> Rhue 
> Saffron 
> Tormentil 
> Turnsole, or Heliotropium 
> Vipers Bugloss 
> Walnut-tree 
> 
> Under Venus are,
> 
> Alehoof, or Ground-Ivy 
> Black Alder-tree 
> Alter-Tree 
> Apple-Tree 
> Stinking Arrach 
> Arch-Angel, or Dead Nettles 
> 
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