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GENERAL RULES TO KNOW UNDER WHAT PLANET EVERY HERB OR PLANT IS GOVERNED, BY THE ONLY USE OF AN HERBAL THEfirft thing confiderable is, to take notice of the elemental qualities of each planet, viz. whether hot and dry, hot and moift, cold and dry, or cold and moift, and of what degrees; as firft, fecond, third, or fourth. Secondly, we muft, by an Herbal, find the nature or elemental quality of the plants; if both the planet and plant accord in elemental qualities, then it may be concluded, that fuch an herb or plant is under fuch a planet: for any true philofopher well knows, that every element naturally fympaftiizes with its own like, juft as the actions of men fympathize with the complexion and condition of that planet which has predominance over them. EXAMPLES.. I? Saturn is a planet cold and dry in die diird and fourth degrees : now by the Herbal I find, that Hemlock, Henbane, Nightfhade, and fuch like, are cold and dry in the third and fourth degrees; and therefore may be juftly attributed to the planet Saturn. If Jupiter is by nature hot and moift: now by the Herbal I find, that Borrage, Mallows, and the herb or plant called Dogftones, are by nature hot and moift; and therefor

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Author

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654

Publisher

F. Locke

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Homeopathy, Medicine