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BREVERTON’S COMPLETE HERBAL BREVERTON’S COMPLETE HERBAL A Book of Remarkable Plants and Their Uses Based on Culpeper’s The English Physitian of 1652 and Compleat Herball of 1653 Terry Breverton New York • London © 2011 by Terry Breverton All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by reviewers, who may quote brief passages in a review. Scanning, uploading, and electronic distribution of this book or the facilitation of the same without the permission of the publisher is prohibited. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. Any member of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all of the work for classroom use or anthology should send inquiries to Permissions c/o Quercus Publishing Inc., 31 West 57th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10019, or to [email protected]. ISBN 978-1-62365350-7 Distributed in the United States and Canada by Random House Publisher Services c/o Random House, 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019 www.quercus.com CONTENTS INTRODUCTION A ADDER’S TONGUE AGRIMONY ALDER ALDER BUCKTHORN ALECOST ALE-HOOF ALEXANDERS ALKANET ALL-HEAL ALLSPICE ALMOND TREE THE APOTHECARIES’ GARDEN ALOE VERA AMARANTHUS (WOOD) ANEMONE ANGELICA ANISE APPLE ARCHANGEL ARRACH (WILD) ARRACH ARSESMART ARTICHOKE ASAFOETIDA ASARABACCA ASH TREE ASPARAGUS ASTROLOGICAL AND ELEMENTAL GARDENS ASTROLOGICAL JUDGEMENT OF DISEASES B BALSAM TREE BARBERRY THE BARBERS PHYSIC GARDEN BARTRAM’S BOTANIC GARDEN BASIL BAY BEET BERGAMOT BIRCH TREE BISHOP’S WEED BISTORT BITTERSWEET BLACKBERRY BLACKTHORN OR SLOE BLADDERWRACK BLUEBELL BONESET BORAGE BOUQUET GARNI BROOM (WHITE) BRYONY BUGLE BURDOCK BUTCHER’S BROOM BUTTERBUR C CABBAGES and COLEWORTS CARAWAY CARNATION (WILD) CARROT CATMINT (GREATER) CELANDINE (LESSER) CELANDINE (WILD) CELERY CENTAURY (CENTAURIUM) CHAMOMILE CHASTE TREE CHERRY TREE CHERVIL (SWEET) CHESTNUT CHICKWEED CHICORY CHILI PEPPER CHIVES CINNAMON (WILD) CLARY CLEAVERS CLOWN’S WOUNDWORT CLUBMOSS COFFEE COLTSFOOT COMFREY COMPANION HERBS CORIANDER CORNFLOWER COTTON LAVENDER COUCH GRASS COW PARSLEY COWSLIP CUBEB CUCKOO-PINT CUCUMBER NICHOLAS CULPEPER (BLACK) CURRANT CYCLAMEN D DAFFODILS DAISY DANDELION DEADLY NIGHTSHADE DILL PEDANIUS DIOSCORIDES DITTANDER DITTANY OF CRETE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES E EARLY PURPLE ORCHID EGYPTIAN MEDICAL HERBS EYEBRIGHT F FENNEL FENNEL—HOG’S FENNEL FEVERFEW FIG-TREE FINES HERBES, HERBES DE PROVENCE AND FIVE SPICE MIX FLAX FLORAL CLOCK FOXGLOVE FUMITORY G GALL-OAK GARLIC GOLDENROD H HAWTHORN HAZELNUT HEARTSEASE (BLACK) HELLEBORE HEMLOCK HEMP HENBANE HERBAL AUTHORITIES HOLLY HONEYSUCKLE HOP HORSERADISH (BLACK) HOREHOUND (WHITE) HOREHOUND HORSETAIL HOUSELEEK HYSSOP I IRIS—FLAG IRIS IRIS—YELLOW FLAG IRIS—STINKING GLADWIN ION THE GARDENER (COMMON) IVY J JUNIPER L LADY’S MANTLE LAVENDER LEMON BALM LEMON LEMON VERBENA LILY OF THE VALLEY LIQUORICE (PURPLE) LOOSESTRIFE (YELLOW) LOOSESTRIFE LOVAGE LUNGFLOWER LUNGWORT M MALLOW and MARSH MALLOW MANDRAKE MARIGOLD MARJORAM MASTIC TREE MARY GARDENS MEADOWSWEET MINT—PEPPERMINT MINT—SPEARMINT MISTLETOE THE MODERN HERB GARDEN MONKSHOOD MOTHERWORT MUGWORT MULBERRY MULLEIN MUSHROOM MUSHROOMS AND TOADSTOOLS MUSTARD N NETTLE NUTMEG TREE and MACE
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