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.
White Rose
Description. The white rose tree grow taller than most other kind of roses, having fewer prickles on the branches and those pretty large; the leaves are of a dark green colour; the flowers are white and more double, or fuller of leaves than the damask or red, having a less fragrant scent than either of them.
Government and virtues. This is under the Moon. The flowers only are used, being drying, binding, and cooling; and the water distilled from them is much used in collyriums, for sore inflamed eyes, being the only officinal preparation from them.