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Secrets of the Herbal Code
By Draconis
An article from Raven’s Call Summer/Fall Issue 6993 * Volume 3,
Number 2
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Among the
Old Religionests was a great deal of herbal
lore. Much of this lore was kept secret as some
of it was psychoactively dangerous, and some of
it was because they were paid for their charms,
and they did not wish this knowledge to get out
as it would have hurt business. Consequently, a
code was made to keep these recipes secret. Much
of this lore is still kept secret, and very
little about the herbal codes have: been openly
taught. It is perhaps time to change this. The
following is part of the herbal code. Among
different tribes and social systems, these codes
went different. Here is one of them.
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Brains |
congealed
gum from a Cherry tree |
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Eyes |
Eyebright or
Daisy |
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Blood |
Elder sap |
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Fingers |
Cinquefoil |
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Hair |
Maidenhair
Fern |
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Skin of a
Man |
Fern |
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Unicorn Horn |
True Unicorn
Root |
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Bull's Blood |
Horehound |
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Piss |
Dandelion |
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Bloody
Fingers |
Foxglove |
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Tongue of
Dog |
Hound's
Tongue |
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Dragon's
Scales |
Bistort
leaves |
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Snake |
Bistort |
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Ear of an
Ass |
Comfrey |
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Heart |
Walnut |
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Ears of a
Goat |
St. John's
Wort |
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Skull |
Skullcap |
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Worms |
Gnarled,
thin roots of a local trees |
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Lion's Tooth |
Dandelion |
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Tooth or
Teeth |
Pine Cones |
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Corpse
Candles |
Mullein |
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A Dead Man |
Ash root,
carved into a crude human shape |
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Hand |
the
unexpanded frond from a male fern,
used to make the true hand of glory,
which was nothing more than a candle
made of regular wax mixed with fern,
and used in old ceremonies |
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Adder's
Tongue |
Plantain |
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Bat's Wing |
Holly leaf |
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Bat's Wool |
Moss |
When these animals are called for, these
herbs were used instead:
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Sheep |
Dandelion |
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Dog |
Couchgrass |
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Lamb |
Lamb's
Lettuce |
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Cat |
Catnip |
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Rat |
Valerian |
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Weasel |
Rue |
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Nightingale |
Hop |
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Cuckoo |
Orchis,
Plantain |
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Hawk |
Hawkweed |
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Linnet |
Eyebright |
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Woodpeckers |
Peony |
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Blue Jay |
Bay Laurel |
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Snake |
Fennel or
Bistort |
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Frog |
Cinquefoil |
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Toad |
Sage |
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Lizard |
Calamint |
When the recipe called for a certain part of
something, the herb was to be used as follows:
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The head |
The
flower |
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The paw,
foot, leg, wing, toe, or scale |
The leaf |
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The tooth |
The leaf,
seed pod |
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The guts |
The roots
and stalk |
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The tail |
The stem |
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The tongue |
The petal |
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The privates |
The seeds |
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The hair |
dried,
stringy herb |
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The eye |
inner part
of a blossom |
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The heart |
a bud, or a
big seed |
Hopefully, if you chance upon an old recipe
which is composed of parts of this code, you
shall begin to be able to interpret it!
Have fun! |
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