plant
Rosemary
Rosemary as a plant people have named and used. Remembrance, kitchen clarity, evergreen — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Rosemary is used in Medicine.
Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists rosemary-kind libanotis/dendrolibanos speech among heating aromatic herb drugs. A named rosemary in that handbook, not frankincense as the resin already walked and not a memory-meme dump alone.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Rosemary is historically related to Oil.
In Watson's A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, Rosemary and Oil are named as companions in the same handbook speech.
from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)
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Rosemary is used in Blackthorn.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, flowers of wormwood, rosemary, and black thorn are boiled together in Rhenish wine with saffron — blackthorn flowers share that Camerarius health decoction with rosemary.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is used in Saffron.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, rosemary flowers boiled with black thorn take half a quantity of saffron near the end of the Rhenish wine boil — saffron finishes that Camerarius health decoction with rosemary.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is used in Thyme.
In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, rosemary and thyme essences are named among the stocks commonly employed in manufacturing Paris pommades — thyme shares that pomade essence shelf with rosemary.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is associated with Memory.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, Rosemary helps a weak memory and quickens the senses, and its oil is for the diseases of the head and brain — rosemary serves that memory.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is associated with Heart.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, Rosemary flowers and conserve are singularly good to comfort the heart and to expel the contagion of the pestilence — rosemary comforts that heart.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is historically related to Honey.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, gargles are made with sage, rosemary, honey-suckles, and plantain, boiled in wine or water, with some honey or alum put thereto — rosemary is prepared with that honey.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is historically related to Wine.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, flowers of wormwood, rosemary, and black thorn are boiled in Rhenish wine (saffron added near the end) — rosemary is prepared with that wine.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is historically related to Vinegar.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, vinegar of rosemary flowers is made after the same manner as rose vinegar by infusion — rosemary is steeped into that vinegar.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is historically related to Alum.
In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, archil lustre for rosemary-flower shades cannot take alum in place of alkali, because alum degrades the deep colours.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is historically related to Nutmeg.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, a hair-growth liniment mixes equal olive-oil and spirit of rosemary with a few drops of oil of nutmeg before nightly rubbing.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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Rosemary is historically related to Camphor.
In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, Whitehead’s essence of mustard compounds oil of turpentine and camphor with spirit of rosemary, then adds a little flour of mustard as a rheumatism embrocation.
from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)
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Rosemary is historically related to Ginger.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, a distilled water bruises lavender and rosemary tops with ginger and zedoary, then infuses them twenty-four hours in rose-water and white wine before distillation.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Rosemary is historically related to Turpentine.
In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, Whitehead’s essence of mustard consists of oil of turpentine, camphor, and a portion of spirit of rosemary, with a little flour of mustard, as a rheumatism embrocation.
from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)
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Lemon is used in Rosemary.
In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, essence of lemon and essence of rosemary are listed together among the pomade essences — rosemary stands with lemon on that perfumer’s pomade stock list.
from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)
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Sage is associated with Rosemary.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, gargles are made with Sage, rosemary, and honey-suckles — sage sits with that rosemary in the gargle.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Roman religion
Rosemary appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History seats rosemary among aromatic Mediterranean shrubs of garden and remedy speech. A named rosemary in that encyclopedia, not rosemary→medicine already under Dioscorides and not sage as the sister aromatic.
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.
- A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · Richard Watson
Richard Watson, A Biblical and Theological Dictionary.
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).
- Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines · Andrew Ure
Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines.
- Book of Household Management · Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).
- Medical Lexicon · Robley Dunglison
Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon (Dictionary of Medical Science).