plant

Vervain

Nature

The named Verbena officinalis of Roman and later folk “herba sacra” speech. Not verbena as a florist cultivar dump, and not yarrow as the Lots wound herb.

Also known as Verbena officinalis · Herba sacra · Verbena

  • Vervain is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists vervain / pigeon-herb (περιστερεών) among wound and ulcer drugs. A named vervain in that handbook, not Roman herba-sacra rite as this sentence and not yarrow as the neighboring wound herb already walked.

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

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