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07/29/2026

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07/21/2026

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07/05/2026

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06/28/2026

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06/27/2026

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06/25/2026

The worldherblibrary.org is a living archive preserving the healing knowledge of plants, capturing the healing wisdom of great herbalists, pharmacists, and scientists. With texts spanning over 2000 years, the library documents the entire history of herbal practice, making it a valuable resource for herbal education and research. The World Herb Library shares its latest discoveries and highlights from its collection, showcasing stunning botanical illustrations and rare herbals. Follow at World Herb Library on Facebook or Instagram for updates on new additions and insights into the world of herbalism. To help keep us Free, please donate at worldherblibrary.org/donation/

06/23/2026

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06/16/2026

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06/15/2026

Please Donate at worldherblibrary.org/donation/ so we can continue to make these translations of Medieval Manuscripts available:

Medical manuscript
This composite manuscript predominantly contains a Middle English translation of the Circa Instans, a Latin work on the medicinal properties of plants, animals, and minerals, which was attributed to the Salernitan physician Matthaeus Platearius.

Garlic. For the dropsy: Take of the middle juice of walnut and of garlic and of filipendula [dropwort], and of each of them [take] three drams, and boil it with four ounces of the juice of ash-tree, and give this to drink.
Also, in medicines, men use wild garlic and not garlic of the garden, for that is to say [it is used] in the making of wild garlic. Men use the flowers and they shall be gathered in the beginning of summer. Of common garlic: Men say the juice of garlic has the power to dissolve and to consume [draw out] and to put out venom. Garlic is evil [bad] for choleric men, for it engenders [creates] choler [yellow bile]. But it is good for phlegmatic men and for them that have the palsy.
But it hurts the sight, and if it is much eaten, it doeth [harms] all the body to much. It engenders leprosy and apoplexy and many other diverse sicknesses. For the biting of a venomous beast, pound garlic and lay a plaster of it on the sore. And garlic eaten destroys venomous [poisonous] things in the body. For worms in a man's belly: make a juice of garlic and pepper and a little parsley and juice of mints and temper it [mix it]...