Acacia |
(Shittah Tree) Astringent and cooling properties; helps with eye diseases and erysipelas, shingles, chilblains, eye growths, mouth sores, and prolapses of the eyes and uterus; stops diarrhea. |
Desiccant in the 3rd degree, cooling in the first (but if washed, of the second). It is sour and terrene. |
Cold and dry in first degree. Comforts eye and ulcers of the mouth and eyes; gets rid of old humors from womb. |
Alum |
Warm, astringent, clear the corneas, reduce overgrown fleshes; beneficial for thrush, pustules, ear rheums, leprosies, itches, chilblains, cancers, spreading ulcers, nits, pediculosis, burns, swellings, and armpit and groin odors. Induces menstruation, stops barrenness, and expels embryos/fetuses. Helps with inflammation sof the gums, uvulas, tonsils, and mouth. |
Sour. |
Calefactive, abstergent; heals scabies and other ulcers; abscindit menstruation. |
Asphalt/Bitumen |
Anti-inflammatory, agglutinative, dispersive, emollient, and beneficial for uterine suffocations and prolapses; checks epileptic attacks; provokes menstruation; helpful for chronic coughs, asthma, tics, dyspnea, snake bits, pains of the hip joints and side, bowel ailments, catarrhs, toothache, gout, and arthritis. |
Hot and dry in the second degree; agglutinative of fresh wounds. |
Hot and dry in second degree. Prevents abscesses; is softening and resolutive; used for epilepsy; provokes urine and menstruation. |
Balsam |
Counteracts uterine chills and draws down afterbirth and embryos/fetuses; dilates cervix; cleanses sores, eyes, and wild animal bites. Aids in pleurisy, inflammations of the lungs, coughs, epileptics, dizziness, colic. Diuretic. |
Desiccant and heating in second degree. |
Hot and dry in the second degree. Comforts frigidity of the womb for birth, moves ulcers, provokes urine; good for asthma because it matures superflidities (superfluitates). |
Cardamom |
Has warming, astringent, desiccative, soporific, and analgesic properties. Soothes inflammations of the eyes, internal organs, liver disease, kidney disease, gout, and female disorders. |
Acrid, bitter, destroys intestinal worms, clears away scabies. |
Hot and dry in first degree. Resolves and fortifies; comforts stomach, syncopi (fainting), and vomiting. |
Cassia (linea and fistula) |
Has warming, diuretic, desiccative, and mildly astringent properties. Improves shortsightedness; removes birthmarks; draws down the menses, helps for snake bits, all internal inflammations and for the kidneys; used by women in sitz baths and to dilate the cervix. |
Heating and desiccative in the third order, acrid, astringent, incisive, discutient, imparts strength to organs, is emmenagogue. |
Temperate; extinguishes activity of the blood, resolves hard apostemas, comforts the stomach and liver pain; purges cholera; relaxes the stomach. |
Myrrh |
Has heating, soporific, agglutinative, desiccative, and astringent properties; softens the uterus and opens it when closed; draws down the menses and embryos/fetuses; also helps with chronic cough, pain of the side and chest, diarrhea, dysentery, and shivering fits; mends roughness of the trachea and horseness of voice; kills intestinal worms, cures bad breakth and armpit odor; strengthens teeth and gums; heals head- wounds, bruised ears, exposed bones, ear afflictions, facial eruptions, afflictions of the eyes. |
Heating and desiccative in the 2nd order; emmenagogue, promotes expectoration from the chest and lungs. Agglutinates wounds of the head; bitter; abortifacient; kills worms. Detergent, expectorant. |
Hot and dry in 3rd degree. Cleanser, coagulant; gets rid of worms. Helps with cough, asthma, and pain in the lungs. Heats, mollifies, and resolves. Provokes menstruation and expels fetus. |
Pennyroyal |
Warms, thins, promotes digestion. Draws the menses, afterbirth, and embryos/fetuses. Brings up phlegm from the lungs; relieves nausea and stomach pain; soothes inflammations, gout, and itching. Use in a sitz bath for uterine inflations, indurations, and twistings.. |
Strongly calefacient and attenuant; rubefacient when applied externally; promotes expectoration of thick humor lodged in chest and lungs. |
Drying and heating in the 3rd degree. Resolvent, diuretic; calefactive, applied externally for pleurisy; helps with asthma, nausea, purges flegmatic humors; provokes menstruation, expels fetus; rubefacient, helps spleen. |
Pepper |
Warms, helps digestion, promotes urine production, perspiration, and cleanses eyes; helps with shivering fits, wild animal bites, draws embryos/fetuses; causes barenness; helps for all chest afflictions, spleen inflammation, digestion, and sore throats, ends colic, purges phlegm, stimulates appetite; analgesic, warming; dissipates scrofulous swellings of the glands and leprosies. |
Acrid, heating, dessicative. |
Both white and black pepper are hot and dry in 4th degree. desiccative, calefactive, fortifying, cleansing. Provokes urine. |
Rue |
Warms, burns, ulcerates, is diuretic and emmenagogic; ends diarrhea; is antidote to poison; stops colic; good for pains on the side and chest, coughs, inflammation of the lungs, pain of the hips or joints; good for inflations of the colon, uterus and intestine; relieves uterine suffocation; expels intestinal worms, sharpens vision; helps with headaches, inflammation of the testicles, leprosy, warts, earaches, erysipelas, shingles and scurf. |
Terrene, cold and subtile substance. Hence it relieve sprains and ruptures and astringent. Alleviates spitting of blood, coliac and dysenteric affections. Cures hepatic (liver) complaints. |
Hot and dry in 3rd degree. Resolves thick, viscous humors; purges and expels through urine; provokes urine and menstruation, comforts suffocation of the uterus. Helps digestive ailments. |
Southernwood |
Helps with orthopnea, ruptures, spasms, hip ailmets, difficult micturation, and delayed menstruation; serves as antidote for poisons and for shivers; helps with spider and scorpion bites, and inflammations of the eyes. |
Warm, dry in third degree, discutient (dispersive), desiccative; cures periodical rigors, alopecia (hair loss). |
Hot and dry in 3rd; abstersive, resolutive, incisive. Helps with retention of menstruation. |
Spurge |
Removes hair; allays toothache; removes warts, carbuncles, cankers, gangrenes, fistulas; purges the bowel. |
Caustic. |
Hot and dry in 4th degree. Cleanses the eye; warms humors; aids dropsy and other similar cold afflictions. |
Storax |
Has heating, emollient, and digestive properties; is effective for coughs, catarrhs, discharges from the hostrils, hoarseness of voice, loss of voice, and ringing in the ears. Draws down the menses, stimulates cervical dilation, softens the bowel; warms, softens, and is soporific. |
Calefacient, emollient, digestive. Useful in coughs, catarrhs, and defluxion; promotes menstruation. |
Hot and dry in the first degree. Emollient, maturative, aids in coughs, colds; cleanses uterus after birth and provokes menstruation. |
Turpentine |
Warms, softens, relaxes; helps with coughs, cleanses impurities from the chest; diurectic; softens stool, helps with digestion, genital itching, leprosy, and pains in the side. |
Heating in the second degree and desiccative in the first, in the second when dried. Fruit is desiccative in the third order. Diuretic and useful for the spleen. |
Hot and dry in 3rd degree. (Softening) Mollifactive, dissolutive, cleansing, comforts cough and ulcers of the lungs and bloody sputum; provokes urine, softens the stomach. |