HERB - "Hortulus" - "Lily"

[Christine A Seelye-King]

So Arnica is an old-world plant used in period?  That's interesting
information to have.  
	Christianna

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 08:54:34 -0400 "Gaylin Walli"
<g.walli at infoengine.com> writes:
>Raisya,
>>Sorry I didn't get back to this sooner, but I lost use of the 
>computer for a
>>day and a half.  Here's the next one, and in case anyone's 
>interested, the
>>lily Strabo describes is supposed to be the Madonna lily (lilium 
>candidum L.)
>
>Good grief, don't apologize. I'm sure everyone here will back me up
>when I say we're just darned excited everytime you do post one of
>these poems. We're not going to trounce you if you don't. :)
>
>Now if Strabo really is describing the Madonna lily, it's a big
>coinkydink because I was just reading about that lily. I was looking
>up plants that treated burns and scaldings and supposedly, this lily
>could be used in an ointment to treat the pain of burns and do so
>without leaving a scar. Also, the flowers were used in combination 
>with
>arnica in alcohol as a linament of sorts to treat bruises. The arnica
>I've obviously seen before, but the lily, no.
>
>Not that I recommend people going and doing this themselves,
>however. I've not even begun to research the major constituents of
>the plant.
>
>jasmine
>
>Jasmine de Cordoba, Midrealm (Metro-Detroit area of Michigan)
>jasmine at infoengine.com or g.walli at infoengine.com
>
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>nulli placet, memet ipsam tamen juvat quod feci."
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