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.

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Agrimony

Description. This hath divers long leaves, some greater, some smaller, set upon a stalk, all of them dented about the edges, green above…

Water-Agrimony

Names. It is called in some countries water-hemp, bastard-hemp, and bastard-agrimony; also eupatorium, and hepatorium, because it…

Amaranthus

Names. Besides this common name, by which it is best known by the florists of our days, it is also called flower-gentle, flower-velure…

Anemone

Name. Called also wind-flower, because they say the flowers never open but when the wind bloweth; Pliny is my author, if it be not so…

Garden Arrach

Names. Called also orach, and orage.

Arrach, Wild and Stinking

Names. Called also vulvaria, from that part of the body, upon which the operation is most; also dog's arrach, goat's arrach, and stinking…

Alkanet

Names. Besides the common name, it is called orchanet and Spanish bugloss, and by apothecaries, enchusa.

Allheal

Names. It is called all-heal, and Hercules's woundwort, because it is supposed that Hercules learned the herb and its virtues from Chiron…

Prickly Asparagus, or Sperage

Description. It groweth usually in gardens, and some of it grows wild in Appleton meadows in Gloucestershire, where the poor people do…

Ash Tree

Names. This is so well known, that time will be mispent in writing a description of it; and therefore I shall only insist upon the virtues…

Adder's Tongue, or Serpents Tongue

Description. This herb hath but one leaf, which grows with the stalk a fingers length above the ground, being flat and of a fresh green…

Alehoof or Ground-Ivy

Names. Several countries give it several names, so that there is scarce an herb growing of that bigness that has got so many: It is called…

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Gold of Pleasure

Description. A very pretty plant, known at sight by the vast quantity of seed-vessels. It is two feet high; the stalk is round…

Slender Honewort

Description. This is a species of the stone parsley a weak plant, of two feet and a half in height; the stalk is brown, and very…

Prickly Restharrow

Description. A little, tough, and almost shrubby plant. It is a foot high. The stalks are round, reddish, tough, and almost…

Calamint

Names. It is called also mountain mint.

Lady's Mantle

Description. It hath many leaves rising from the root standing upon long hairy footstalks, being almost round, and a little cut…

Navel-Wort, or Pennywort

Names and Kinds. It is called umbilicus veneris, and herba concendicum. There are seven different kinds.

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