plant
Hazel
Hazel as a plant people have named and used. Wisdom nut, divining rod, soft catkin — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Hazel is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists hazelnut/leptokarya speech among nut drugs beside the broader karya chapters. A named hazel in that handbook, not walnut as the neighboring nut pharmacy and not a dowsing-rod dump.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Hazel is historically related to Honey.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, a pectoral electuary is made with hazel-nuts among other nuts and fourteen ounces of honey — hazel is compounded with that honey.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Hazel is historically related to Silver.
In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, some miners employ hazel twigs for veins of silver when seeking to discover the veins with the forked rod — hazel is used for that silver vein.
from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912
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Hazel is historically related to Starch.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, lohoch of pinenuts takes pine-nuts, sweet almonds, hazel nuts gently roasted, gum arabic and tragacanth, powder and juice of liquorice, and white starch among the compounded pulp — hazel nuts are joined with that starch.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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In Culpeper English Physician, milk drawn from hazel kernels with mead or honeyed water is used for an old cough.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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In Culpeper English Physician, hazel kernels are parched with a little pepper and drunk to digest the stomach.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Nut is associated with Hazel.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, if any part of the hazel nut be stopping it is the husks and shells, and the red skin covering the kernel may be easily removed — the nut is that hazel fruit.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Argol is historically related to Hazel.
In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, soap cut small is mixed with powdered argol and heated in a pot, or else the contents are stirred with a hazel twig split at the bottom — argol is stirred with that hazel.
from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912
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Roman religion
Hazel appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats hazel among nut trees of the Italian landscape. A named hazel in that encyclopedia, not walnut as the larger nut tree and not a modern confection dump.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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sources
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).
- De Re Metallica · Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation)
Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, trans. Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (1912).