SC - lavender

[Thomas Gloning]

<< 'Spica calida et sicca, et calor ejus sanus est. Et qui spicam cum
vino coquit, vel, si vinum non habet, cum melle et aqua coquat, et ita
tepidum saepe bibat, et dolorem jecoris et pulmonis, et dumphedinem in
pectore ejus mitigat, et scientiam puram ac purum ingenium facit.'
... What is this, Sanskrit? >>

Sort of very, very late Sanskrit... ;-)

Roughly: Spica (lavendula spica) is hot/warm and dry [humoral
properties], and its heat/warmth is healthy. If you boil spica with
wine, or, if there is no wine, with honey and water, and if you drink it
often tepidly, it will soothe both the pain of the liver, the pain of
the lung and the oppression of the thorax. It makes pure knowledge and
pure 'power of thinking'.

Later, lavender is mentioned in a recipe of Sabina Welser (#106).

Best,
Thomas