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Encyclopaedia of Magickal Herbs, Expanded and Revised, Llewellyn, 2003 both of which
contain astrological information but lack explanations of why the astrological
attributions are as they are.
[12] For example, this seems almost certainly to be the case with regards to the
herbal works of Scott Cunningham, where the astrological information closely
follows that of Culpeper. Cunningham also includes a number of plants that are
not in the English Physician, where the attributions may be his own.
[13] Hermes Trismegistus was purportedly the author of the alchemical work, The
Emerald Tablet in which the phrase can first be found. This was later taken up by
the famous physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) who popularised the idea in
Renaissance Europe. He was also famous for the idea that “like cures like”, which
has importance for the astrological properties of herbs and how they relate to the
human body.
[14] Nicholas Culpeper, The Astrological Judgment of Diseases from the Discomfiture of the
Sick. Today published by Kessinger, 2004. See p. 89 for an outline of how the
nature of a disease may be found out.
[15] The examples are drawn from ibid. pp. 90-91.
[16] Ibid. p.96.
[17] Modern herbalists generally agree that burdock can be effective for some liver
complaints and has an inner cleansing action effective for boils and abscesses,
which can be caused by the organ working improperly. See Nicola Peterson, Herbs
and Health, Bloomsbury Books, 1989, p.31, 77, 81.
[18] The planets are given in their magickal Kabbalistic order. Neptune, Uranus
and Pluto have not been included as they were discovered later than the C17th
and have only relatively recently been associated with plants.
[19] The extract is taken from Culpeper’s Complete Herbal, Wordsworth Reference
Series, 2007, p.ix.
[20] On this point see Peter Morrell, British Homeopathy During Two Centuries,
unpublished M. Phil. thesis available online for free at
http://homeoint.org/morrell/british/index.htm. The relevant section is Part One:
Origins, Homeopathy and Hahnemann.
[21] This table and Appendix Four was mainly based on information contained in
Julia and Derek Parker, Parker’s Astrology, The Definitive Guide to Using Astrology in
Every Aspect of Your Life, DK Publishing 2003.
[22] The majority of the correspondences in this table are based on Nicholas
Culpeper, op. cit. and his full list can be found here:
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/culpeper/plants.htm It should be
noted such categorisation was never seen as an exact science and it is quite
possible to classify some of the above plants differently.
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