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.
Ruggedwort
Description. This grows like the marsh rugwort; the flowers are large and yellow in some, and in others paler and moderately small. The stalk is two feet high, upright, and divided into many branches.
Place. It is common upon salt marshes in Lincolnshire. Time. It flowers in July.
Government and virtues. It is under the Moon. The juice taken in wine, or the decoction drank morning and evening, helps the jaundice, but all other drink must be avoided for three hours after the dose is taken. Added to centaury and succory, it helps the dropsy and the diseases of the spleen. It is also good for inward bleeding and the bloody-flux, and it is a good wound-herb.