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Diacalaminta Simplex
Powder of Calamint Lesser
Powder of Calamint Lesser
Tradition:
Western
Source / Author:
Nicholas Myrepsus
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Herb Name
Calamint
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dr = drams, scr. = scruples
Preparation:
Prepare a Powder. It can be made into an Electuary with Honey or Sugar dissolved in Rose water.
Function:
Warms the Kidney, Bladder, Stomach and Bowels, clears Cold Phlegm, relieves Wind, moves Qi, promotes Urine
Use:
"Especially valid for every disease of the chest from coldness, especially for those who are in old age". (Nicholas, Antidotarium)
1. used for cold-type pain of the Stomach, Bowels, or Kidneys;
2. poor Digestion
3. Nausea from Cold and Wind;
4. Cough, Wheezing from Cold phlegm (especially in the aged)
5. good for Cold-Wind-Damp type joint pain including Sciatica.
6. Stones
7. Amenorrhea
8. Dysmenorrhea
Dose:
1⁄2–1 dram, morning and night in Honey, pulp of Prunes, a suitable Broth or Syrup, or a Decoction of Elecampane and Licorice.
Cautions:
None noted
Modifications:
‘It heats and comforts cold bodies, cuts thick and gross phlegm, provokes urine and the menses. I confess this [reformed version]differs something from Galen, but is better for our bodies in my opinion than his. It expels Wind exceedingly, you may take half a dram of the powder at a time. There is nothing surer than that all their powders will keep better in Electuaries than they will in powders, and into such a body, you may make it with two pound and an half of white sugar dissolved in rose water’. (Culpeper)
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