Herbal & Animal Medicines — Medieval Manuscript

Others cotolarrodias.

Name of the herb Coctulidones Navelwort

Others hafatalkesgecon.
Others fales.
Italians umbilicus veneris Venus's navel.
It grows in houses and in monuments ancient ruins or burial structures.

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To disperse swellings: apply the herb coctulidontem navelwort with an equal weight of pork lard without salt, warm, and it disperses the swellings; gather it in the wintertime.

Name of the herb Gallitricis Wall-pellitory or similar

It grows in solid places and around roads.

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For a dog bite: apply the herb gallitricis crushed with lard and domestic bread onto the bite, it will be healed and the hardness will vanish.

Two hand-painted botanical illustrations. The top plant features upright stems with pairs of broad, lanceolate leaves and small, yellowish bulbous structures at the leaf axils. The lower plant shows a central root system from which emerge several stems bearing broad, ovate leaves and tall, thin vertical flower spikes with small yellow florets.

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Name of the herb Marubium Horehound

Others epicatrion.
Others polopis.
Egyptians astericon.
Afreos.
Others gonolar.
Italians marrubium.
Others camelopodium.
Others call it nostrophion.

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For severe cough: give the herb marubium boiled in water to those who cough heavily; it works miraculously.

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For stomach pain: the juice of marubium removes stomach pain if drunk.

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For condylomas genital warts/growths: burn the herb marrubium and rub the area with its ash, it will heal it. If anyone has ingested poison: give the juice of the herb marubium with old wine, it disperses the poison.

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For scabies or impetigo: the water in which the herb marubium has been boiled

washes the body and will disperse the scabies and impetigo.

For expectoration of the lungs: take the herb marubium boiled with honey; it cures miraculously. It heals wonderfully.

For any hardness tumors or indurations: apply the herb marubium crushed with lard.

For fatigue of the feet and pain of the nerves and spasm: apply the herb marubium boiled, mixed with rose oil; it will be healed without delay.

Name of the herb Vyson

Others call it eustascomon.

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For fistulas that grow in the body: mix the herb vysikon raw with six ounces of amine a type of wine or vinegar, six ounces of vinegar, two cups of fox fat, three ounces, and a little wine, and apply with a linen cloth; you will be amazed.

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For a fracture of the head: the upper part of the herb vysion, crushed and dried and placed upon the wound, extracts broken bones.

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And if anyone has stepped on the bones of a serpent or any poisonous animal, if this herb is cooked with bread, it is effective.

A botanical illustration of a plant with a thick, curved root, a cluster of dark green, sharp, lanceolate leaves radiating from the base, and two tall stalks ending in round yellow flower heads. Below it, another plant illustration shows a woody shrub-like form with a red root system and many small, green, rounded leaves on thin branches.

Name of the herb Gallitricum

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For swellings of virgins: the herb gallitricum rubbed by itself and applied to virgins heals the swellings.

for black hair

For darkening hair: the herb gallitricum crushed in oil, let the head be anointed with it, and the hair will be made black.