Herbarium

A herbarium of 82 magical plants and trees and 24 fungi — rulers, seasons, folklore and clear safety warnings — with a blend maker for sachets, incense, oils and washes, when to gather each plant, the festivals that use it, and your own herb cabinet with the blends it can make. Two pictures open the herbarium: the gatherer's year, a wheel of what is in season each month with the festivals on its rim, and Culpeper's garden, seven planetary beds whose leaves show how safe each herb is. Grind a sachet or incense blend yourself in a mortar, working the pestle round until the leaves are powder, sunwise or against the sun as your aim asks.

mixer

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LEARN THE BACKGROUND

19 lessons explain the ideas behind this tool.

Herbarium

The gatherer's year

Each month carries a leaf for every plant here that flowers or is gathered then in Britain. The eight festivals stand on the rim. Tap a month.

January · now

Green: kitchen-safe · gold: use with care · red: poisonous or deadly · violet: controlled. Tap a plant to find it below.

Culpeper's garden

Culpeper's English Physitian (1652) gave nearly every herb a ruling planet. Here they grow in seven beds round a sundial, one for each planet, each leaf coloured by how safe the plant is. Tap a bed to show only its herbs.

Only the rulers Culpeper himself gave (66 of 82)

He matched herb to illness by sympathy, a herb of the planet that caused it, or by antipathy, a herb of the opposing planet. Lore only: not medical advice.

The gatherer's year

Each month carries a leaf for every plant here that flowers or is gathered then in Britain. The eight festivals stand on the rim. Tap a month.

January · now

Green: kitchen-safe · gold: use with care · red: poisonous or deadly · violet: controlled. Tap a plant to find it below.

Culpeper's garden

Only the rulers Culpeper himself gave (66 of 82)

He matched herb to illness by sympathy, a herb of the planet that caused it, or by antipathy, a herb of the opposing planet. Lore only: not medical advice.

Herbarium

WORKS WELL WITH

LEARN THE BACKGROUND

Herbarium

The gatherer's year

Culpeper's garden

Meadowsweet

Mistletoe

Oak

HOW OTHER MEDICAL TRADITIONS CLASSIFY A PLANT

Galen and the humours

PRACTISE WITH IT

WORKS WELL WITH

LEARN THE BACKGROUND

The gatherer's year

Culpeper's garden

Meadowsweet

Mistletoe

Oak

HOW OTHER MEDICAL TRADITIONS CLASSIFY A PLANT

Galen and the humours

PRACTISE WITH IT