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Category Archives: Plants

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Mandrake

Dec 10, 2018Eric CorbettFolk medicine, Magic, Plants, SuperstitionFacebook post

The mandrake (Mandragora officinalis) is one of 2500 species of plants belonging to the Solanaceae family. Its psychoactive effects have been known to physicians since ancient times.

Hortus Sanitatis

Sep 23, 2018Eric CorbettFolk medicine, Plants

The Hortus Sanitatis (also written Ortus, Latin for The Garden of Health), was the first natural history encyclopedia, published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, Germany in 1491.

Engole, the Elven for knowledge
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