Olea, Olive tree
Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491
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Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578
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Wild and Domestic Olive
Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563
Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563
Flora von Deutschland (16), Kohler, 1884
Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen, Berg & Schmidt, Leipzig, 1893
Botanical name:
Olea europea
Parts used:
Fruit (pickled); Leaf; Expressed Oil
Temperature & Taste:
LEAF: Cool and dry, Bitter
OIL: Warm and Moist. Sweet
Classifications:
Olive Oil:
2E LENITIVE 2L. EMOLLIENT 2Q. ANODYNE 2U. SUPPURATIVES
3O. EMETICS
Olea europea
Parts used:
Fruit (pickled); Leaf; Expressed Oil
Temperature & Taste:
LEAF: Cool and dry, Bitter
OIL: Warm and Moist. Sweet
Classifications:
Olive Oil:
2E LENITIVE 2L. EMOLLIENT 2Q. ANODYNE 2U. SUPPURATIVES
3O. EMETICS
Uses:
FRUIT:
-Olives clear Heat and Inflammation of the Stomach
-Pickled Olives, eaten before food, promote Appetite, move the Belly, and are strengthening for a moist Belly
LEAF:
-cleanses Liver and Gall Bladder; Gall Stones
Externally:
-topically for Diarrhea, excess Menstruation
=Carbuncles, Herpes, Erysipelas, St. Anthony's Fire, Eating Ulcers,
EXPRESSED OIL (of Ripe Fruit):
-Loosens the Belly, corrects the dryness of the Bowels (often used in Enemas)
-Good for ‘dryness of the Breast’ (Chest)
-Promotes Urine, cleanses and heals the urinary passages,
-Often used in Enemas, and applied to Tumors, roughness and dryness etc.
-taken with Warm water, it promotes Vomiting
OIL OMPHACINE (oil pressed from unripe Fruit)
-it cools, dries and astringes.
Main Combinations:
1. Gall Bladder inflammation, Gall Stones:
i. Olive leaf, Celandine, Dandelion, Peppermint, Fennel seed
ii. Olive leaf, Agrimony, Turmeric, Fennel seed
Cautions:
None noted
Main Preparations used:
‘Oil of the Philosopher’s’, a special distilled Oil from Olive Oil discusses, maturates and mollifies, and is good topically for cold hard Tumors, Gout etc.
None noted
Main Preparations used:
‘Oil of the Philosopher’s’, a special distilled Oil from Olive Oil discusses, maturates and mollifies, and is good topically for cold hard Tumors, Gout etc.