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Recipe · Culpeper, The English Physitian (1652)

Pansies · vehicle not stated

Original passage

or Heartsease are like unto Violets in all their operations but somwhat hotter and dryer, yet very temperate, and by viscuous Juyce therein doth somwhat mollifie, yet less than Mallows: It is conducing in like manner as Violets to the hot Diseases of the Chest and Lungs: for Agues, Convulsions, and Falling-sickness in Children: The Decoction helpeth Itch and Scabs being bathed therwith: It is said also to soder green Wounds, and to help old Sores, the Juyce or distilled Water thereof being drunk.

Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, or An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation (1652 edition) · Entry “Violets.” · vertues and use · lines 19992–20004 · passage culpeper-1652:herbal:violets:006

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What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1PlantPansies“Pansies”
  2. 2Use (as written)the hot Diseases of the Chest and Lungs: for Agues, Convulsions, and Falling-sickness in Children“the hot Diseases of the Chest and Lungs: for Agues, Convulsions, and Falling-sickness in Children”
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  4. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  5. Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
  6. HeatNot stated in source
  7. DurationNot stated in source
  8. FiltrationNot stated in source
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  10. FormNot stated in source