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Nettle

Nature

Nettle as a plant people have named and used. Sting first, then medicine, iron green — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Nettle is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists nettle (akalyphe/knide) among drawing and blood-staunching plant drugs. A named nettle in that handbook, not a textile-fiber dump alone and not a slapstick-sting dump.

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

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  • Nettle is used in Garlic.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, nettle seed and garlic taken in wine stand together among the henbane counters — garlic shares that free-from-danger wine list with nettle seed.

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

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  • Nettle is historically related to Honey.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, nettle roots or leaves, or their juice, are made into an electuary with honey and sugar to open the pipes of the lungs — nettle is prepared with that honey.

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

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  • Nettle is historically related to Wine.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, for henbane poison Culpeper records nettle seed among the seeds taken in wine to restore due temper — nettle seed is taken in that wine.

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

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  • Nettle is historically related to Comfrey.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, to check an uterine flux she is to drink decoctions of nettle-roots, or the greater comfrey — nettle is set with that comfrey regimen.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Henbane is used in Nettle.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, nettle seed is named among the substitutes drank in wine to help those that have taken henbane — nettle seed stands as a tempering counter when goat’s milk or honeyed water is wanting.

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

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  • Bread is historically related to Nettle.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, a violent uterine flux is treated with a cool slender diet of broths with bread, and with drinks of decoctions of nettle-roots or the greater comfrey.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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Hellenic religion

  • Nettle Fiber is historically related to Nettle.

    Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants seats κνίδη among useful plants whose parts are known and used, continuous with later bast-fiber speech that spins nettle stems into cloth. A named nettle-fiber in that useful-plant neighborhood, not nettle as the published plant alone and not ramie as Boehmeria China grass or flax as the linen bast already walked.

    from Theophrastus · Enquiry into Plants, c. 300 BCE

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