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  • Dona Mercedes Velasco's recovery from nosebleed after prayer to the Lord of the Abandoned. Oil painting, 1854.
  • Dona Mercedes Velasco's recovery from nosebleed after prayer to the Lord of the Abandoned. Oil painting, 1854.
  • A maid puts a key down a man's shirt to stop his nosebleed. Lithograph, c. 1835-1841.
  • Achillea millefolium L. Asteraceae. Yarrow or sneezewort, the latter because ground up it made a snuff to induce sneezing. Evergreen, herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Europe, Asia and North America. Dioscorides calls it Achilles’ woundwort, sideritis, writing that the ground-up foliage closes bleeding wounds, relieves inflammation and stops uterine bleeding. Gerard (1633) says that put up one’s nose it causes a nosebleed and so stops migraines. Named for the Greek warrior, Achilles, who used this plant for healing wounds – having been taught its properties by his teacher, Chiron the centaur. Millefolium because of the thousands of fronds that make up the leaf, and which, when applied to a bleeding wound, facilitate coagulation by platelets. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Equisetum arvense (Horsetail)
  • Lythrum salicaria (Purple loosestrife)
  • Capsella barsa pastoris (Shepherd's purse)
  • Ming herbal (painting): Chinese pulsatilla [root]
  • C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Hegu
  • First aid for lay people before the doctor arrives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, Plantago
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.