plant

Hyssop

Nature

The named biblical and monastic cleansing herb (ezov / Hyssopus). Not sage as the Lots smoke leaf, and not marjoram as a kitchen Oregano kin.

Also known as Ezov · Hyssopus officinalis

  • Hyssop is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists hyssop (ὕσσωπος) among heating and pectoral herbs used in compound medicines and decoctions. A named hyssop in that handbook, not biblical ezov identity theology as this sentence and not sage as the neighboring smoke-leaf.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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