Red Campion Melandrium
Rubrum,
The bright red of this flower was the cause of me stopping in the first place. I found a veritable little trove of what we call weeds. Eventually I ended with no less than 5 sets of JPG's.
Buds and leaves
Flower cluster.
A closer look at the flower.
Of both the Red and White Campion
Culpeper has this to say:—
Government and virtues.
They belong to Saturn, and it is found by experience, that the decoction
of the herb, either in white or red wine being drank, doth stay inward
bleedings, and applied outwardly it does the like; and being drank, helps to
expel urine, being stopped, and gravel and stone in the reins and kidneys. Two
drams of the seed drank in wine, purges the body of choleric humours, and helps
those that are stung by scorpions, or other venomous beasts, and may be as
effectual for the plague. It is of very good use in old sores, ulcers, cankers,
fistulas, and the like, to cleanse and heat them, by consuming the moist
humours falling into them, and correcting the putrefaction of humours offending
them.
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