Important: Safety Warning
This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Heartichoke
Names. The Latins call them cineria, and they are also termed artichocus. Government and virtues. They are under the dominion of Venus. They are great provocatives to lust, yet stay the involuntary course of natural seed in man; the decoction of the root boiled in wine, or the root bruised and distilled in wine, and drunk, purgeth by urine exceedingly.