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Myrtle

Nature

Myrtle as a plant people have named and used. Love evergreen, bridal green, soft berry — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Roman religion

  • Myrtle appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid seats myrtle among plants of Venus and Trojan memorial. A named myrtle in that epic, not laurel as the Daphne tree and not a wedding-checklist dump.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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  • Myrtle is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists myrtle (myrsine) berries and leaves among astringent drugs. A named myrtle in that handbook, not Virgil’s Roman plant speech already walked and not a wedding-wreath dump alone.

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

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  • Myrtle is used in Vinegar.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, myrtle berries enter ointment compounds with white wine vinegar among astringent receipts — vinegar is the liquor worked with that myrtle charge.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Honey.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, myrtle boiled in wine with pepper and nitre for warts is followed by almond and honey for dry scabs and ringworm — myrtle treatment is finished with that honey.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Willow.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, a hernia plaster boils myrtle berries with willow leaves, comfrey roots, and ash bark in red wine and smith’s water — myrtle is boiled with that willow.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Pomegranate.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, unguentum sumach takes myrtle berries with balaustines and pomegranate pills among the astringent simples before wax — myrtle sits with that pomegranate.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Rose.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, rose leaves and myrtle berries are boiled together for troches of Ramich — the rose and myrtle share that decoction.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Wine.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, myrtle leaves bruised with wax are applied after the herb is boiled in wine, and myrtle itself is infused in wine to stay fluxes — myrtle works in that wine.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Comfrey.

    In Culpeper English Physician, emplastrum catagmaticum boils myrtle berries with comfrey roots in red wine and smith water - myrtle is boiled with that comfrey.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Suet.

    In Culpeper English Physician, after that myrtle-comfrey decoction is strained, goat suet is added and boiled again into the plaster - myrtle work takes that suet.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Alum.

    In Culpeper English Physician, unguentum sumach steeps myrtle berries then compounds them with oil of roses washed in alum water - myrtle meets that alum wash.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Ivory.

    In Culpeper English Physician, a plaster of mastich takes ivory with myrtle berries among the binding simples - myrtle is compounded with that ivory.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Turpentine.

    In Culpeper English Physician, a plaster of mastich compounds myrtle berries with turpentine, ivory, and coral - myrtle shares that plaster with turpentine.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Silk.

    In Culpeper English Physician, a cordial powder beats myrtle berries with torrified silk among the simples - myrtle is powdered with that silk.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Pepper.

    In Culpeper English Physician, the same powder compounds myrtle berries with long and white pepper - myrtle shares that powder with pepper.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Olive.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, Nehemiah directs the people to fetch olive branches with pine and myrtle branches to make booths for the feast of tabernacles.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Pine.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, Nehemiah directs the people to fetch pine branches with olive and myrtle branches to make booths for the feast of tabernacles.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Red rose is used in Myrtle.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, red rose leaves are boiled with myrtle berries in a binding decoction — myrtle berries share that boil with the red rose leaves.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Sixteen is used in Myrtle.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, sixteen ounces of sorrel juice are boiled with red rose leaves and myrtle berries — myrtle berries enter that sixteen-ounce decoction.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Cedar is historically related to Myrtle.

    In Watson Biblical and Theological Dictionary, Isaiah plants in the wilderness the cedar with the myrtle and the oil tree among trees famed for stature and fragrance.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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Hellenic religion

  • Myrtle appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes myrtle among Aphrodite and sanctuary plant gear. A named myrtle in that periegesis, not Virgil’s Roman myrtle already walked and not Dioscorides pharmacy alone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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