HERB - colds and flu

[Christina Bean]

You can get a copy of the Leech Book of Bald by going to
Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England: Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and Edited by Cockayne, T. O. The Holland Press UK. 1961.

This book is fantastic, it has translations of The Leech Book of Bald, The Lacnunga, the Apulei Platonici Herbal, some of Dioscorides, another Greek Herbal, some Fly Leaf Leechdoms and many more.

Caristiona

Lochac

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    From: wormtongues at mindspring.com <wormtongues at mindspring.com>
    To: herbalist at ansteorra.org <herbalist at ansteorra.org>
    Date: Tuesday, 23 January 2001 12:55
    Subject: RE: HERB - colds and flu
    
    
    Cecille here....... 
    
    Thanks for the information m'lady Iasmin de Cordoba. 
    
    I am making both an herbal COLD remedy and an herbal FLU 
    remedy for an herbal competition. 
    
    That is why I wanted to know what these illness were called or what 
    they were known as in the Middle Ages.   
    
    Can you or someone recommend some good period books that can 
    substantiate and expound upon the information you gave me? 
    
    I have Vol I &II of Mrs Grieves.   
    I know that Culpepper is available electronically. 
    I am trying to get a copy of The Leech Book of Bald.  
    
    1. I am going to use sage and hot water for a sore throat gargle. 
    
    2. For my Cold remedy I will make tisane of the following: 
    
    Angelica 
    Marshmallo 
    Elecampane 
    Licorice 
    Fennel 
    Fenugreek 
    Wild Cherry Bark 
    
    3.  For my Flu remedy, I have decided on a tisane of the following:   
    
    Melissa 
    Chamomile 
    Peppermint 
    Licorice 
    Meadowsweet 
    
    I have been making the above recipes and using them on myself and 
    family for several years....AND THEY ARE EFFECTIVE!! 
    
    Any thoughts (from any herbalist out there!), on the above are 
    appreciated! 
    
    **** 
    Cecille de Baskervyl - Principality of Cynagua,Kingdom of the West 
    
    Purpure, four swords inverted fretted and interlaced saltirewise and 
    on a chief enarched Or, two foxs' heads erased purpure. 
    
    (I just had to print both my Society name and Blazon.  They both 
    just became Registed!!!) 
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    > ** Original Subject: RE: HERB - colds and flu 
    > ** Original Sender: Gaylin Walli <>iasmin at home.com> 
    > ** Original Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:29:41 -0500 (EST) 
    
    > ** Original Message follows...  
    
    > 
    > Cecille asked: 
    >  
    > >If you had a cold or the flu during the Middle Ages,  
    > >what was the name given for this condition? 
    >  
    > Well, to be honest, there really wasn't one per se. 
    >  
    > >In other words...Does anyone know what the Medieval  
    > >synonyms for "Cold" and "Flu" might have been? 
    >  
    > In all honesty, the medieval mind was treating symptoms, 
    > not whole conditions like we do today. To them, the cough 
    > was a treated thing, the fever was a treated thing, the 
    > running nose was a treated thing, the aching body was a 
    > separate thing. Does that make sense? 
    >  
    > Iasmin 
    >  
    > Iasmin de Cordoba, iasmin at home.com 
    > 
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