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ANEMONE ANEMONE NEMOROSA And when all is done, let physicians prate what they please, all the pills in the dispensary purge not the head like to hot things held in the mouth. It is called the Wind-flower because they say the flowers never open unless the wind bloweth. But it is also known as the Wood Anemone of Great Britain. Where to find it: A beautiful low-growing plant which naturalises itself in open woodland beneath leaf-losing trees and in shady places in rock gardens. Flowering time. Spring. Astrology. It is under the dominion of Mars. Medicinal virtues: The leaves provoke the terms, being boiled, and the decoction drank. The body bathed with the decoction cures the leprosy. The leaves stamped, and the juice snuffed up the nose, purgeth the head mightily; so doth the root, chewed in the mouth, for it procureth much spitting and bringeth away watery and phlegmatic humours and is therefore excellent for the lethargy. Made into an ointment and the eyelids anointed with it, it helps inflammations of the eyes. The same ointment is excellent to cleanse malignant and corroding ulcers. Modern uses: Medical herbalists use the Pasque Flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris, as a nervine and anti-spasmodic for nervous headaches and asthma. The tincture available from them is given a few drops at a time, in water every two or three hours. |