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.
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Of Hyssope
The Description. 1 DIoscorides that gave so many rules for the knowledge of simples, hath left Hyssope altogether without description, as being a plant so well knowne that it needed none: whose example I follow not onely in this plant, but in many others which be common, to avoid tediousnesse to the Reader. The Place.
All kindes of Hyssope do grow in my Garden, and in some others also. The Time.
They floure from June to the end of August.
The Names.
Hyssope is called in Latine, Hyssopus: the which name is likewise retained among the Germans, Brabanders, Frenchmen, Italians, and Spaniards. The Vertues.
A decoction of Hyssope made with figges, water, honey, and rue, and drunken, helpeth the old cough.