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  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Magu liquor; Mungbean liquor
  • Lavatera olbia 'Pink Frills'
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Plum rain water
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Snakes
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Vinegar
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Salt
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Precious metals
  • Ming herbal (painting): Cormorant
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Brine
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Shellfish
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, Cattail polle
  • Potentilla thurberi 'Monarch's Velvet'
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Hailstones
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Oenanthe javanica
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Final-month month snow water
  • Ming herbal (painting): Xichi (a water fowl)
  • Chinese materia medica (Ming), .Contents page
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • Ming herbal (painting): Aspen/white poplar
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leaves and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [wishes to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leave and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [who wish to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
  • Ming herbal (painting): Adjutant bird(?)
  • Ming herbal (painting): Siberian white crane
  • Attributes of rDo-rje Grags-mo brGyal (Dorje Dragmogyel) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of rDo-rje Grags-mo brGyal (Dorje Dragmogyel) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of rDo-rje Grags-mo brGyal (Dorje Dragmogyel) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of rDo-rje Grags-mo brGyal (Dorje Dragmogyel) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of rDo-rje Grags-mo brGyal (Dorje Dragmogyel) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.