Pennyroyal

Now, rue is one of a battery of different plants that can be used to induce abortion.

Pennyroyal is another one.

Lungwort, with its spotted leaves there, that one is good for infections of the lung, easing the chest, and, uh, would have been used as a, a general herb in that area.

So the Tudor garden was really the ultimate in organic, natural medicine.

Now, rue is one of a battery of different plants that can be used to induce abortion.

Pennyroyal is another one.

Lungwort, with its spotted leaves there, that one is good for infections of the lung, easing the chest, and would have been used as a general herb in that area.

So the Tudor garden is really the ultimate in organic natural medicine?

I kind of want to buy all these just because they look cool.

Pennyroyal, skullcap, nettle.

These are excellent names.

Whoever named these herbs nailed it.

tripping me up.

Anyway, Penny Royal.

Tuberose and violet.

Which tuberose is also bouquet.

I need two more to go.

Pennyroyal, Mentha Pulegium, ruled by Venus.

Pennyroyal runs along the ground, its tender stalks bearing their tiny purple flowers shooting up from the lateral growth's intervals.

Its country name is from the early Latin name Puleum Regium, written in some herbals as Puleol royal, which we could translate as a sovereign killer of fleas.

Pulegium is indeed derived from the Latin pulux, flea, but although Culpeper described it as a herb that would cure most things from disease, jaundice and dropsy to whooping cough he made no mention of fleas unless you count the information that a decoction helps the itch the greek legend surrounds pennyroyal is that it's named after a nymph minthy mentha daughter of cox coctust who was turned into a plant of mint by pisophony in a fit of jealousy as you do it has a warming effect like most mints and is good for curing flatulence I give my father's recipe here for mint, water is a cure from flatulence.

Yes.

Pennyroyal.

Pennyroyal is a variety of which herb? Mint.

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Pennyroyal.

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