plants & planets

The English Physitian

A Catalogue of the Herbs and Plants &c. in this Treatise, apropriated to their several PLANETS.

SATURN: Under Saturn are,

Saturn rules over aging, the bone structure, teeth, and all hardening processes. Many of its plants are poisonous such as Hemlock and Belladonna. The effects of Saturnian plants are sedative, pain relieving, coagulant, or bone-forming.

Barley

Red Beets

Beech-tree

Bifoyl, or Twayblade

Birdsfoot

Bistort, or Snakeweed

Blewbottles

Buckshorn-Plantane

Wild Campions

Pilewort

Cleavers, or Goosgrass

Clowns Woundwort

Comfry

Cudweed, or Cottonweed

Sciatica Cresses

Crosswort

Darnel

Doddar

Epithimum

Elm-tree

Osmond Royal

Fleawort

Flixweed

Fumitory

Stinking Gladwin

Goutwort

Wintergreen

Haukweed

Hemlock

Hemp

Henbane

Horsetail,

Knapweed

Knotgrass

Medlar-tree

Moss

Mullein

Nightshade

Polypodium

Poplar-tree

Quince-tree

Rupture-wort

Rushes

Solomons-Seal

Sarazens Confound

Service-tree

Spleenwort, or Cetrach

Tamaris

Melancholly-Thistle

Blackthorn

Throughwax

Tutsan, or Parkleaves

Woad.

Under Jupiter are,

Jupiter rules the liver, abdomen, spleen, and the kidney. Digestion is governed by this planet as was body growth. Most of Jupiter's plants are edible, many bearing nuts or fruit such as the chestnut and the apricot. Its medicinal traits are antispasmodic, calmative, hepatic, and anthelmintic.

[anthelmintic, a & n. (Medicine) of use against intestinal worms. [f.ANTH + Gk helmins- minthos + IC]

Agrimony

Alexanders

Asparagus

Avens

Bay-tree

White Beets

Water-Bettony

Wood-Bettony

Bilberries

Borrage

Bugloss

Chervil

Sweet Cicely

Cinkfoyl

Costmary, or Alecost

Dandelyon

Docks

Bloodwort

Dog, or Quich-grass

Endive

Hartstongue

Hysop

Housleek, or Sengreen

Liverwort

Lungwort

Sweet Maudlin

Melissa,

Oak-tree

Red Roses

Sage

Sauce alone, or Jack by the Hedg

Scurvy-grass

Succory

Our Ladies Thistles.

MARS: Under Mars are,

Mars rules the muscles, body vitality, and the libido. It also had influence in the combustion processes of the body and the motor nerves. Its plants generally affected the blood, and were stimulating, and in many cases aphrodesiac. Many were hot and acrid in their nature.

Arsesmart

Asarabacca

Barberry-bush

Sweet Bazil

Bramble-bush

Briony

Brooklime

Butchers-broom

Broom

Broomrape

Crowfoot

Cuckoopint, or Wake-Robin

Cranebil

Cotton-Thistle

Flax-weed, or Toad-flax

Fursebush

Garlick

Hawthorn

Hops

Naddir

Madder,

Masterwort

Mustard

Hedg-Mustard

Mettles

Onions

Pepperwort, or Dittander

Carduus Benedictus, in the Epistle

Rhadish

Horse Rhadish

Rhubarb

Rapontick

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Bastard Rhubard

Thistles

Star-thistle

Tobacco

Wolly Thistle

Treacle Mustard

Mithridate Mustard

Wold, Weld, or Dyers Weed

Wormwood

SUN: Under the Sun are,

The sun was said to rule the heart, circulation, and the vertebral column. All plants that appeared solar, such as Calendula and Sunflower fell under its influence, as did those plants that followed the sun in their growth such as Heliotrope. Plants that were heat producing, such as Clove and Pepper, and all those having a tonic effect on the heart were classified under the Sun.

Angelica

Ash-tree

Bawm

One-blade

Burner

Butter-bur

Chamomel

Chelondine

Centaury

Euphrasia,

Eyebright

St. Johns wort

Lovage

Marigolds

Misleto

Peony

St. Peters wort

Pimpernel

Rosa Solis

Rosemary

Rhue

Saffron

Tormentil

Turnsole, or Heliotropium

Vipers Bugloss

Walnut-tree

VENUS: Under Venus are,

Venus ruled the complexion, the sexual organs, and the hidden inner workings of the body cells. Venusian plants almost all bore heavily scented, showy blossoms such as the Damascus Rose or the Apple Blossom. The medicinal effects were commonly emollient, anti-nephritic, and alterative. Of course, many of the aphrodesiac plants were included under the auspice of Venus as well.

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Alchemilla or Yarrow,

Alehoof, or Ground-Ivy

Black Alder-tree

Alter-Tree

Apple-Tree

Stinking Arrach

Arch-Angel, or Dead Nettles

Beans

Ladies Bedstraw

Birch-tree

Bishops Weed

Blites

Bugle

Burdock

Cherry-tree

Winter Cherries

Chickweed

Cichpease

Clary

Cocks-head

Coltsfoot

Cowslips

Daisies

Devils-bit

Elder

Dwarf Elder

Eringo

Featherfew

Figwort

Filipendula

Foxgloves

Golden-rod

Gromwel

Groundsel

Herb Robert

Herb Truelove

Kidneywort

Ladies Mantle

Mallows

Marsh-Mallows

Mercury

Mints

Motherwort

Mugwort

Nep, or Catmint

Parsnip

Peach-tree

Pear-tree

Penyroyal

Plantane

Plum-tree

Primroses

Ragwort

Rocket

Winter-Rocket

Damask Roses

Wood Sage

Sanicle

Selfheal

Sopewort, or Bruisewort

Sorrel

Wood Sorrel

Sowthistles

Spignel

Strawberries

Garden Tansy

Wild Tansy, or Silver-weed

Teazles

Vervain

Vine-tree

Violets

Wheat

Yarrow.

MERCURY; Under Mercury are,

Mercury ruled the nervous system, and the organs of speech, hearing, and respiration. Mercuric plants bore finely divided leaves such as fennel, dill, and carrot. The smell was usually sharp and distinctive. The most typical of Mercury's plants had a mood elevating, slightly tonic effect.

Calaminth, or Mountain Mint

Carrots

Carraway

Dill

Elicampane

Fern

Fennel

Hogs Fennel

Germander

Hazel Nut-tree

Horehound

Houndstongue

Lavender

Lavender flowers

Liquoris

Wall-Rhue

Maidenhair

Golden Maidenhair

Sweet Marjoram

Melilot

Moneywort

Mulberry-tree

Oats

Parsley

Cow Parsnep

Pellitory of the Wall

Groundpine, or Chamepitys

Rest-Harrow, or Chamock

Sampire

Summer and winter Savory

Scabious

Smallage

Southernwood

Meadow Trefoyl

Garden Valerian

Woodbind, or Honey-Suckles.

MOON: Under the Moon are,

The moon was held to influence growth, fertility, the breasts, stomach, womb, and menstrual cycle. It also exerted control over the brain and the memory. All body fluids and secretions were believed to be under the lunar sway. To some extent, the entire plant world was subject to the Moon, as harvesting and planting was performed in accordance with the lunar phases. Most especially lunar were those plants with a diaphoretic action, or with juicy globular fruits. Moisturizing, cooling, or soothing juices fell in here as well.

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Adders Tongue

Cabbages

Coleworts

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Sea Coleworts

Columbines

Watercresses

Duckmeat

Yellow Waterflag

Flower-de-luce

Fluellin

Ivy

Lettice

Water-Lillies

Loosestrife, with, and without spiked Heads

Moonwort

Mousear

Orpine

Poppies

Purslain

Privet

Rattle-grass

Veronica,

White Roses

White Saxifrage

Burnet Saxifrage

Wall-flowers, or Winter-gilliflowers

Willow-tree

EARTH

Drosera i.e., Sundew.