Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician

Agrimony to yarrow: Nicholas Culpeper's outlaw herbal gave every English family the apothecary's secrets — each plant with its government, its virtues, and the diseases it was trusted to cure.

Weld, or Wold

2 pages in this part of Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Weld, or Wold

Name. Called also Dyers' Weed, and Willow-leaved Yellow-Herb. Description. Weld grows to be a yard or more high, having hollow channelled…

Weld, or Wold: Wheat-meal

Description. The root is fibrous. The stalk is hollow, jointed, and five feet high; the leaves are grassy, and of a fine green. The ear is…

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