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Geflügelte Braunwurz
Scrophularia alata (aquatica)
Betony (Water)
Planet: Jupiter / Krebs
Energie: mässig warm und mässig feucht
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| Stichworte: |
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| Geschwüre |
Ulcers |
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Bruises |
| Sonnenbrand |
Sunburning |
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Description: |
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First of the Water-Betony, which riseth up with square hard greenish Stalks, and somtimes brown, set with broad dark green Leavs dented about the edges with notches, somwhat resembling the Leavs of the Wood-Betony, but much larger, two for the most part set at a Joynt. The Flowers are many, set at the tops of the Stalks and Branches, being round bellied, and open at the Brims and divided into two parts, the uppermost being like a Hood, and the lowest like a Lip hanging down, of a dark red colour, which passing away, there comes in their places smal round Heads with smal points in the ends, wherin lie smal and brownish Seeds: The Root is a thick Bush of strings and threds growing from an Head. |
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Place: |
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It groweth by Ditchsides, Brooks, and other Water-courses generally through this Land, and is seldom found far from the Waters sides. |
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Time: |
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It Flowereth about July and the Seed is ripe in August. |
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Use: |
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It is of a clensing quality; the Leavs bruised and applied are effectual for all old and filthy Ulcers; and especially if the Juyce of the Leavs be boyled with a little Honey, and tents dipped therin, and the Sores dressed therwith: as also for Bruises or Hurts whether inward or outward. The distilled water of the Leaves is used for the same purposes; as also to bath the Face or Hands spotted or blemished, or discolored by Sunburning.
I confess I do not much fancy distilled Waters, I mean such Waters as are distilled cold, some vertue of the Herb they may happliy have (it were a strange thing else) but this I am confident of, that being distilled in a Pewter Stil, as the vulgar and apish fashion is, both Chymical Oyl and Salt is left behind, unless you burn them, and then all is spoiled, Water and al, which was good for as little as can be by such a Distillation. You have the best way of Distillation in my Translation of the London Dispensatory. The Colledg of Physitians having as much skil in Distillations as an Ass hath reading Hebrew.
Water-Betony is an Herb of Jupiter in Cancer and is apropriated more to Wounds and Hurts in the Breast than Wood-Betony which follows. |
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Edgenote: |
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Ulcers, Bruises, Sunburning. |
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| 26.04.2024 J.N. |
