plant
Mint
Mint as a plant people have named and used. Cool wake, sharp breath, spreading green — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Mint is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ Materia Medica treats mint among garden herbs with drug uses. A named mint in that handbook, not Menthe as a nymph dump without a checked Menthe entity and not a candy dump.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Mint is historically related to Oil.
In Beeton's Book of Household Management, Mint is treated with Oil; piece and peer stock share the entry.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Mint is historically related to Oak.
In Culpeper's The English Physician, Mint is placed beside Oak as concrete shop companions.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Mint is used in Vinegar.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, mint with pennyroyal is put into vinegar for faintings — the vinegar is smelled or put to the nostrils and mouth.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Mint is associated with Cinnamon.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, aromatic medicines may be taken inwardly as cinnamon or mint-tea, or wine with spiceries boiled in it — mint sits with cinnamon among those inward aromatics.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Mint is historically related to Camphor.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, camphorated emulsion grinds camphor with almonds and adds mint-water by degrees before straining — mint water carries that camphor.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Mint is historically related to Sage.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, mint, sage, parsley and other sweet herbs are dried, pounded, and bottled for winter flavouring of soups and forcemeats — mint is prepared with that sage.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Mint is historically related to Wine.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, tea of mint and cinnamon is mixed with an equal quantity of red wine as ordinary drink when vomiting is troublesome — mint tea is mixed with that wine.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Mint is historically related to Lemon.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, the saline julep dissolves salt of tartar in lemon-juice, then adds mint-water with common water and simple syrup.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Mint is historically related to Butter.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, wheat wafers boiled to a jelly are next boiled with mint and butter to ease hoarseness of the throat.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Mint is historically related to Ginger.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, the diuretic mixture compounds mint-water with vinegar of squills, sweet spirit of nitre, and syrup of ginger.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Mint is historically related to Pepper.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, inexpensive pea soup shreds mint into the pot with salt and pepper over split peas and vegetables.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Mint is historically related to Mace.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, an anodyne liniment mixes Bates’s balsam with expressed oil of mace and oil of mint for rubbing at bedtime.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Mint is historically related to Saffron.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, a saline mixture compounds mint-water with powdered nitre, antimonial wine, spirits of nitre, and syrup of saffron.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Mint is historically related to Mortar.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, camphorated emulsion grinds camphor and sweet almonds in a stone mortar, then adds mint-water by degrees, strains, and dissolves white sugar in the liquor.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Nitre is historically related to Mint.
In Buchan Domestic Medicine, a diuretic mixture mixes mint-water with sweet spirit of nitre - nitre is mixed into that mint water.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Bread is historically related to Mint.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, when bilious-colic vomiting is hard to restrain, the patient may drink a decoction of toasted bread, or an infusion of garden-mint in boiling water.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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sources
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Book of Household Management · Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).
- Domestic Medicine · William Buchan
William Buchan, Domestic Medicine (12th ed., 1791).