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Polygonum Bistorta (Bistort)
Rowan McOnegal- Pictures
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Five flowering plants, including bistort (Polygonum bistorta) and knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
W. Dickes & Co.Date: [1855]Reference: 24801i- Pictures
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Five flowering plants, including water pepper (Polygonum hydropiper) and redleg (Polygonum persicaria). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
W. Dickes & Co.Date: [1855]Reference: 24802i- Pictures
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Two plants, one possibly a knotweed (Polygonum species). Watercolour.
Reference: 23232i- Pictures
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A plant (Polygonum orientale): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1792.
Date: 1 December 1792Reference: 25815i- Pictures
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A plant, possibly a knotweed (Polygonum species): flowering stem and leaves. Watercolour.
Reference: 23126i- Pictures
Three plants, possibly including a knotgrass (Polygonum species) and a grass. Watercolour.
Reference: 23413i- Digital Images
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Polygonum bistorta L. Polygonaceae Bistort, snakeweed, Easter Ledges. Distribution: Europe, N & W Asia. Culpeper: “... taken inwardly resist pestilence and poison, helps ruptures, and bruises, stays fluxes, vomiting and immoderate flowing of the terms in women, helps inflammations and soreness of the mouth, and fastens loose teeth, being bruised and boiled in white wine and the mouth washed with it.” In modern herbal medicine it is still used for a similar wide variety of internal conditions, but it can also be cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The use to relieve toothache, applied as a paste to the affected tooth, seems to have been widespread. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Redleg plant (Polygonum persicaria): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1877-1900]Reference: 24508i- Pictures
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Water pepper plant (Polygonum hydropiper) and two square segments of a gel-like substance. Watercolour.
Reference: 22758i- Pictures
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A ground-cover plant (Polygonum vacciniifolium): flowering stem. Coloured zincograph by C. Rosenberg, c. 1850, after himself.
Rosenberg, C. T., active approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26359i- Pictures
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Two species of knotweed (Polygonum species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24490i- Books
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Memoria sulla cultura e gli usi economici del Polygonum tartaricum : presentata alla Società Georgica di Montecchio / da Massimo Moreschini.
Moreschini, Massimo.Date: [1785]- Pictures
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Six British wild flowers, including water pepper and knotweed (Polygonum species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1846]Reference: 24645i- Ephemera
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Oh! My poor back" dran' pa" o'o ought to put on one of Carter's backache plasters" : Carter's Backache Plasters.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Ephemera
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Carter's Backache Plasters for every ache or pain : puzzle card.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Ephemera
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Back ache quickly relieved by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back Ache Plasters.
Date: [betwen 1900 and 1909?]- Ephemera
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Presented by the makers of Carter's Little Liver Pills : back-ache quickly cured by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back-Ache Plasters.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Books
Major herbs of ayurveda / compiled by the Dabur Research Foundation and Dabur Ayurvet Limited ; edited by Elizabeth M. Williamson ; foreword by Malcolm Hooper.
Date: 2002