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Hiera Logadii

Tradition:
Western, Unani

Source / Author:
Nicholas Myrepsus

Herb Name
Colocynth
Polypody root
Euphorbium
Poley Montane
Spurge seed
Wormwood
Myrrh
Centaury
Agaric
Gum Ammoniac
Indian leaf
Indian Spikenard
Squill
Scammony prepared
Aloe
Thyme
Cassia Wood
Germander
Bdellium
Horehound
Cinnamon
Opopanax
Castoreum
Long Birthwort
Black Pepper
Long Pepper
White Pepper
Saffron
Parsley seed
Black Hellebore prepared
White Hellebore prepared

Latin
Citrullus colocynthus
Polypodium vulgare
Euphorbium resinifera
Teucrium polium
Euphorbium spp.
Artemisia absinthium
Commiphora molmol
Centaurium erythraea
Fomitopsis officinalis
Dorema ammoniacum
Cinnamonum tamala
Nardostchys jatamansi
Scilla maritima
Convovulus scammonia
Aloe spp.
Thymus vulgaris
Cinnamonum cassia
Teucrium chamaedrys
Commiphora mukul
Marrubium vulgare
Cinnamonum zeylanicum
Ferula opopanax
Castoreum
Aristolchia longa
Piper nigrum
Piper longum
Piper album
Crocus sativus
Petroselinum cripsum
Helleborus niger
Veratrum album

Amount

2 drams ea.


1
½ drams, 6 gr.

1 dram, 12 gr. ea.






1 dram ea.





1 scruple, 14 gr.. ea.








½ dram ea.

6 grains ea.

Preparation:
Powder them all individually, then with a sufficient amount of Honey, form an Electuary, according to Art.

Function:
Purges Melancholy, clears Damp, settles Wind

Use:
1. Madness, Insanity
2. Melancholy
3. Rage, Anger
4. Dizziness
5. Vertigo
6. Convulsions, Epilepsy
7. Headache
8. Migraine
9. Neuralgias of the Head
10. Paralysis
11. Tremors, Shaking, Parkinsonism
12. Pleurisy
13. Arthritis
14. Eczema, Psoriasis
15. Liver or Spleen disease
16. Leprosy
17. Poison
18. Poor Vision

Dose:

½–1½, or 2 drams; 1 dram was a common dose, being taken with Wine to which a little Salt has been added

Cautions:
1. Culpeper praised it but warned against its indiscriminate use, and its use in inexperienced hands.
2. Not used in Pregnancy, the very young, very old, the weak, or in Yin deficiency.
3. Avoid overdose and long-term use.

Modifications:
This can be simplified and relieved of some of its strong, irritant medicines.

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‘Good against all old Madness, against the Melancholy, against all Falling Sickness, and all other Ragings or Madness, against the Giddiness, and all pain of the Head. Item, it is very good against all Palsies, against all Shaking, and against all Heart-beating. It is also good in the Pleurisy, in all sickness of the Liver and of the Spleen, it provokes Women’s Terms; and is also good against all Gouts, against all Poison, Leprosy, and Scurfe’. (Wirtzung)

Culpeper said: ‘It takes away by the roots daily Evils coming of Melancholy, Falling Sickness, Vertigo, Convulsions, Migraine, Leprosy, and many other infirmities’.

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