1840 Antique ASTROLOGY Medicine MEDICAL HERBAL Recipes BOTANY Herbs ALCHEMY Rare

  
Medical Botany or Herbal Guide to Health, Explaining the Natural Pathology of Disease, with Hundreds of Herbal Recipes, thus making Every Man His Own Physician. By William Joseph Simmonite, A. Professor of Mathematics, Astronomy, Astro Meteorology, and the Classics, Author of the Astronomical Ephemeres Published Annually; also the Meteorologist; Scientific Messenger, Arcana of Nativities, Mathematical Tables for Astro Philosophers; the Self Teaching Grammar, the Manual of Astronomy, etc, etc.

LONDON: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor were the guardians of the inner most secrets of Freemasonry and they also influenced the founding of the Theosophical Society, The Golden Dawn and other societies around the world. The order taught practical occultism focusing on mythology, alchemy, astrology, theurgy, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Thelema, Holy Royal Arch Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and Scottish Rite Freemasonry and Society of Jesus, Hermetic Qabalah, occult and divinatory tarot.

Called Caraum Carri ought to be grown in every garden. The seed is the principle part used, although the root is better food than the parsnip; it flowers in June or July and is ripe soon after. It is governed by Mercury and is good for all his diseases when located in Gemini or Virgo as flatulency, flatulent colic, gouty pains in the head, is carminatative, and gives warmth to purgatives.

The seed powdered and mixed in poultice takes the blackness from bruses. Vervain or Verbena Officinalis is under Venus and will strengthen the womb; it grows wild in many places by the way side; flowers in July and they are white tinged with light purpla; leaves somewhat like nettles, dusky green and notched at the edges.

The fresh gathered tops are used; the powder of which is one of the best emetics we can apply, for which give a tablespoonful of in pennyroyal tea, being careful not to take cold. Three ounces of the fresh tops of Vervain, one ounce of raspberry leaves, and one ounce of pennyroyal to one quart of water; a little ginger and sugar may be added. Does - a wine glassful three times a day. Use- obstructions of liver and spleen, nervousness, small pox, wheezing, scurvy, worms, gravel and stoppage of urine. The item "1840 Antique ASTROLOGY Medicine MEDICAL HERBAL Recipes BOTANY Herbs ALCHEMY Rare" is in sale since Saturday, June 23, 2018.

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• Year Printed: 1840
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
• Topic: Occult
• Binding: Hardcover
• Region: Europe
• Author: William Joseph Simmonite
• Subject: Science & Medicine
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Language: English
• Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall
• Place of Publication: London
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition