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Flachs
Linum usitatissimum
Flax-Weed
Planet: Mars
Energie: neutral warm und sehr trocken
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| Stichworte: |
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| Schmerzhafter Harndrang |
Disury |
| Wassersucht |
Dropsie |
| Stauungen der Leber |
Obstructions of the Liver |
| Gelbsucht |
yellow Jaundice |
| Totgeburt und Nachgeburt |
Dead Child and Afterbirth |
| Entzüdungen |
Inflamations |
| Augen |
Eyes |
| Geschwüre |
Ulcers |
| Krebs |
Cancers |
| Fisteln |
Fistulaes |
| Lepra |
Leprosie |
| Krätze |
Scabs |
| Pickel |
Pimples |
| Sommersprossen |
Freckles |
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Description: |
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Our common Flaxweed hath divers Stalks full fraught with long and narrow blue or Ash-colour'd Leavs, and from the middle of them almost upward stored with a number of pale yellow Flowers, of a strong unpleasant scent, with deeper yellow mouths, and blackish flat Seeds in round Heads. The Root is somwhat woody and white, especially the main downright one, with many fibres, abiding many yeers, shooting forth Roots every way round about, and new Branches every yeer. |
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Place: |
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This groweth throughout this land, both by the way sides in Meadows, as also by Hedg sides, and upon the sides of Banks and Borders of Fields. |
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Time: |
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It Flowreth in Summer, and the Seed is ripe usually before the end of August. |
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Use: |
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This is frequently used to provoke Urine being stopped, and to spend the abundance of those watery Humors by Urine which caus the Dropsie. The Decoction of the Herb both Leavs and Flowers in Wine, taken and drunk doth somwhat move the Belly downwards, openeth Obstructions of the Liver, and helpeth the yellow Jaundice, expelleth Poyson, provoketh Womens Courses, driveth forth the dead Child, and Afterbirth. The Distilled water of the Herb and Flowers is eflectual for all the same purposes, especially being drunk with a dram of the Pouder of the Seeds, or Bark of the Root of Walwort and a little Cinnamon for certain daies together, is held a singular Remedy for the Dropsie: The Juyce of the Herb or the distilled Water dropped into the Eyes is a certain Remedy for all heat, Inflamations and redness in them. The Juyce or water put into foul Ulcers whither they be Cancrous or Fistulous with tents rouled therin, or the parts washed or injected therwith clenseth them throughly from the bottom, and healeth them up safely. The same Juyce or Water also clenseth the Skin wonderfully of all sorts of deformity thereof, as Lepry, Morphew, Scurff, Wheals, Pimples, or any other Spots or Marks in the Skin, applied of it self, or used with some Pouder of Lupines.
Mars owns the Herb, in Sussex we call it, Gall-wort and lay it in our Chickens water, to cure them of the Gall I think, I am sure it releevs them when they are drooping. |
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Edgenote: |
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Disury, Dropsie, Obstructions of the Liver, yellow Jaundice, Dead Child and Afterbirth, Inflamations, Eyes, Ulcers, Cancers, Fistulaes, Leprosie, Scabs, Pimples, Freckles. |
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| 22.12.2024 J.N. |
