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The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt
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Metheglen for taste and colour
Ein Buch von guter spise
Le Menagier de Paris
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Beverages for the sick - Bouillon
Beverages for the sick - Bochet
Beverages for the sick - Another Bouchet Kept Four Years
The vertuose boke of the distyllacyon of all maner of waters of the herbes
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Aqua Vita Composita
Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery by Digby, Kenelm, Sir
The boke of keruynge
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For to makeypocras.
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Quince Wine
YARROW
(Achillea millefolium terrestre vulgare)
Used in
Gruit
Common Names
common yarrow
,
gordaldo
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nosebleed plant
,
old man's pepper
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devil's nettle
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sanguinary
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milfoil
,
soldier's woundwort
,
thousand-leaf,
thousand-seal
Also
arrowroot,
bad man's plaything,
carpenter's weed,
death flower,
devil's nettle,
eerie,
field hops,
gearwe,
hundred leaved grass,
knight's milefoil,
knyghten,
milefolium,
millefoil,
noble yarrow,
old man's mustard,
sanguinary,
seven year's love,
snake's grass,
soldier,
stanch weed,
thousand seal,
woundwort,
yarroway,
yerw
Temperature & Vertues
Cleansing and meanly cold (Gerard)
Medicinal
Staunches blood
Reduces inflammation
Increases spermaticke matter (Gerard)