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Sheep Sorrel/Rumex acetosella

Artist: William Curtis

From my Culpepper:

He also says that all sorrels are under the dominion of Venus.

I found a patch this week and have been experimenting with it. So far I’ve made a sorrel & ginger syrup and Czech sorrel soup.

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"Cough, to Relieve. Mallows & marsh-mallows, both ruled by Venus, doth marvellously help the diseases of the lungs, & easeth the lingering cough. Agrimony, ruled by Jupiter... Borage, ibid. Horehound, ruled by Mercury... Hedge-mustard, ruled by Mars... Thyme, ruled by Venus..."

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The ghost of the astrologer Nicholas Culpepper appeared to his widow Alice bidding her to disown the works which contemporary booksellers were posthumously issuing falsely under his name. The distinguished Oriental scholar Henry Jacob was said to have appeared several times after his death; he failed to speak, but it was generally assumed that he had come to explain that his manuscripts had been pirated under someone else's name.

Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic

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I was watching A History of Magic, and they mention that in the 1600′s there was a man named Nicholas Culpepper who wrote a book called Cupepper’s Complete Herbal.

This upset many of his fellow physicians, because it meant that common people could now make many remedies themselves, and didn’t have to rely on physicians as much.

I guess this goes to show that the 1% have always tried to keep everybody else down so that they could make more money.

Except for the rare few like Culpepper, that is.

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The admirable Harmony of the Creation is herein seen, in the influence of Stars upon Herbs and the Body of Man, how one part of the Creation is subservient to another, and all for the use of Man, whereby the infinite power and wisdom of God in the creation appear; and if I do not admire at the simplicity of the Ranters, never trust me; who but viewing the Creation can hold such a sottish opinion, as that it was from eternity, when the mysteries of it are so clear to every eye ? but that Scripture shall be verified to them, Rom. i. 20 : "The invisible things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" And a Poet could teach them a better lesson ; "Because out of thy thoughts God shall not pass, His image stamped is on every grass." This indeed is true, God has stamped his image on every creature, and therefore the abuse of the creature is a great sin; but how much the more do the wisdom and excellency of God appear, if we consider the harmony of the Creation in the virtue and operation of every Herb ? Hereby you may know what infinite knowledge Adam had in his innocence, that by looking upon a creature, he was able to give it a name according to its nature; and by knowing that, thou mayest know how great thy fall was, and be humbled for it even in this respect, because hereby thou art so ignorant.

Nicholas Culpepper, The Complete Herbal

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