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William Turner on the Holy Thistle
Identifier
017217
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Turner's Herbal (1568)
'It is very good for the headache and the megram, for the use of the juice or powder of the leaves, preserveth and keepeth a man from the headache, and healeth it being present. It is good for any ache in the body and strengtheneth the members of the whole body, and fasteneth loose sinews and weak. It is also good for the dropsy. It helpeth the memory and amendeth thick hearing. The leaves provoke sweat. There is nothing better for the canker and old rotten and festering sores than the leaves, juice, broth, powder and water of Carduus benedictus.'
The source of the experience
Turner, WilliamConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Bacterial infectionBone and skeletal disease
Migraine
Muscle diseases
Oedema
Toxins
Viral infection
Suppressions
Deafness and tinnitusHoly thistle