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CARDUUS BENEDICTUS, or BLESSED THISTLE or HOLY THISTLE

Benediktenkraut, Kardobenedikte, Spinnendistel

Cnicus benedictus L.

Bitter Thistle, Blessed Thistle, Holy Thistle

Planet:   Mars / Widder
Energie: mässig warm und mässig trocken

Stichworte:
  
Description: I suppose the name was put uppon it by some that had little Holiness in themselves.
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Use: It helps Swimming and giiddiness of the Head, or the Disease called Vertigo, because Aries is the House of Mars. It is an excellent Remedy against the yellow Jaundice, and other infirmities of the Gall, because Mars governs Choller. It strengthens the attractive faculty in man, and clarifies the Blood, because the one is ruled by Mars. The continual drinking the Decoction of it helps red Faces, Tetters, and Ringworms because Mars causeth them. It helps Plague sores, Boils, and Itch, the Biting of mad Dogs and venemous Beasts, all which infirmities are under Mars. Thus you see what it doth by Sympathy.
By Antypathy to other Planets: It cures the French Pox by Antypathy to Venus who governs it. It strengthens the Memory and cures Deafness by Antipathy to Saturn who hath his Fall in Aries which Rules the Head. It cures Quartan Agues, and other Diseases of Melancholly and adult Choller by Sympathy to Saturn, Mars being exalted in Capricorn. Also it provokes Urine, the stopping of which is usually caused by Mars or the Moon.
Edgenote:
22.12.2024 J.N.