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Pfingstrose (Paeonia officinalis)
Paeonia
Peony (Male)
Planet: Sonne / Löwe
Energie: mässig warm und mässig trocken
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| Stichworte: |
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| Epilepsie |
Falling-sickness |
| Frauen nicht gereinigt bei Geburt |
Women not clensed in Childbirth |
| Gebärmutter |
Mother |
| Nachtgeister |
Ephialtes |
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or the Night-Mare |
| Melancholie Träume |
Melanchollick Dreams |
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Description: |
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The Male Peony riseth up with many brownish Stalks, whereon grow many fair green and somtimes reddish Leavs, one set against another upon a Stalk without any particular devision in the Leaf at all. The Flowers stand at the tops of the Stalks, consisting of five or six broad Leavs, of a fair purplish red colour, with many yellow threds in the middle standing about the Head, which after riseth to be the Seed Vessels, devided into two, three, or four rough crooked Pods like Horns, which being ful ripe, open, and turn themselves down one edge to another backward, shewing within them divers round, black shining Seed, having also many red or Crimson grains, intermixed with the black, whereby it maketh a very pretty shew. The Roots are great, thick, and long, spreading and running down reasonable deep in the Ground.
The ordinary Female Peony hath many Stalks and more Leavs on them than the Male: the Leavs not so large but nicked diversly on the edges, some with great and deep, others with smaller cuts and devisions, of a dark or dead green colour. The Flowers are of a strong heady scent, most usually smaller and of a more purple colour than the Male, with yellow thrums about the Head as the Male hath. The Seed Vessels are like Horns as in the Male, but smaller, the Seed also is black but less shining. The Roots consist of many thick and short tuberous clogs, fastned at the ends of long strings and all from the Head of the root which is thick and short, and of the like scent with the Male. |
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Place: |
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They grow in Gardens. |
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Time: |
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They Flower usually about May. |
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Use: |
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The Root of the Male Peony fresh gathered, hath been found by experience to cure the Falling-sickness; but the surest way is (besides hanging it about the Neck, by which Children have been cured) to take the Root of the Male Peony washed clean and stamped somwhat smal, and lay it to infuse in Sack for twenty four Hours, at the least, after strain it, and take first and last, morning and evening a good draught for sundry daies together before and after a full Moon, and this will also cure older persons, if the Disease be not grown too old and past cure, especially if there be a due and orderly preparation of the Body, with Posset drink made of Betony &c. The Root is also effectual for Women that are not sufficiently clensed after Childbirth, and such as are troubled with the Mother; for which likewise the black Seed beaten to Pouder and given in Wine, is also available. The black Seed also taken before bed time, and in the morning, is very effectual for such as in their sleep are troubled with the Disease called Ephialtes or Incubus, but we do commonly cal it the Night-Mare; a diseas which Melancholly persons are subject unto; It is also good against Melanchollick Dreams. The Distilled water, or Syrup made of the Flowers, worketh the same effects that the Root and the Seed do, although more weakly. The Female is often used for the purposes aforesaid, by reason the Male is so scarce a Plant that it is possessed by few, and those great Lovers of rarities in this kind.
It is an Herb of the Sun, and under the Lyon, Physitians say Male Peony Roots are best, but Dr. Reason told me, male Peony was best for men, and female Peony for women and he desires to be judged by his brother Dr. Experience. The Roots are held to be of most Vertue, then the Seeds next the Flowers, and last of all the Leavs. |
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Edgenote: |
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Falling-sickness, Women not clensed in Childbirth, Mother, Ephialtes, or the Night-Mare, Melanchollick Dreams. |
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| 22.12.2024 J.N. |
