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Eselsdistel
Onopordum acanthium
Down
Planet: Mars
Energie: sehr heiss und sehr trocken
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| Stichworte: |
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| Krummer Nacken |
Wry Neck |
| Krampf |
Spasmus |
| Zuckungen |
Convulsion |
| Rachitis |
Rickets |
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Description: |
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This hath many large Leavs lying on the ground, somwhat cut in, and as it were crumpled on the edges, of a green colour on the upper side, but covered over with a long hairy Wool, or Cottony Down, set with most sharp, and cruel pricks; from the middle of whose Heads of Flowers, thrust forth many Purplish, Crimson Treds, and somtimes (although more seldom) white ones. The Seed that followeth in these Heads, lying in a great deal of fine white Down is somwhat large, long, and round, like the Seed of Ladies Thistle, but somwhat paler. The Root is great and thick spreading much, yet it usually dieth after Seed time. |
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Place: |
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It groweth on divers Ditches Banks, and in the Corn-fields, and High-waies generally every where throughout the Land. |
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Time: |
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It Flowreth and beareth Seed about the end of Summer, when other Thistles do Flower and Seed. |
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Use: |
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Pliny and Dioscorides write That the Leavs & Roots hereof taken in Drink, helpeth those that have a Crick in their Neck, wherby they cannot turn their Neck but their whol Body must turn also (Sure they do not mean those that have got a Crick in their Neck by being under the Hangmans Hands.) Galen saith that the Root and Leavs hereof are of an heating quality, and good for such Persons as have their Bodies drawn together by some Spasme or Convulsion; as it is with Children that have the Rickets, or rather (as the Colledg of Physitians will have it) the Rachites, for which name for the Disease, they have (in a particular Treatise lately set forth by them) Learnedly Disputed, and put forth to the publick view, that the World may see, they took much pains to little purpose.
Mars owns the Plant, and manifests to the World, that though it may hurt your Fingers it will help your Body, for I fancy it much for the Premises. |
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Edgenote: |
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Wry Neck, Spasmus, Convulsion, Rickets. |
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| 18.04.2024 J.N. |
