aristolochia, which aids women in childbirth.
Original French: Ariſtolochia, qui ayde les femmes en mal d’enfant.
Modern French: Aristolochia, qui ayde les femmes en mal d’enfant.
Among the plants named for their virtues and operations.
Aristolochia is also mentioned in Chapter 49, among plants that have two sexes.
Notes
Aristologia longa
Aristologia rotunda
Aristologia rotunda (text)
Aristologia longa
Aristologia longa (text)
Aristolochia
Aristolochia rotunda
Lang holwurtz
Aristolochia longa
Aristolochia longa L.
aristolochia
D’άριζοζ, optimus, λόχιοζ, ad partum pertinens, λόχοζ, puerpera gravida: herba puerperis utilis.
Aristolochia
Pliny xxv. 8 [?]
aristolochia
De ἄριστοζ, excellent, λόχια, lochies; plante qui, d’après Dioscoride, facilite post partum le flux lochial. « Inter nobilissimas aristolochiæ nomen dedisse gravidæ videnturm quoniam esset ὰρίστη λοχενούσαιζ », dit Pline, XXV, 54. Aristolochia, genre d’Aristolochiées. Pline en mentionne quatre esp.: l’une à tubercules ronds (A. lutea, Desf. ? selon Sprengel; A. rotunda, L. ? pour Fée) ; la 2e, mâle, à racine longue (A. longa, L. ?); la 3e, clematitis ou cretica (A. clematitis, L. ?); la 4e ou plistolochia, ou polyrrhizon (A. pistolochia, L. ?) La plus employée en thérapeutique ancienne était A. longa, L. (Paul Delaunay)
aristolochia
Inter nobilissimas aristolochiae nomen dedisse gravidae videntur, quoniam esset ἀρίστη λεχούσαις. nostri malum terrae vocant et quattuor genera eius servant: unum tuberibus radicis rotundis, foliis inter malvam et hederam, nigrioribus mollioribusque, alterum masculae, radice longa, quattuor digitorum longitudine, baculi crassitudine, tertium longissimae, tenuitate vitis novellae, cuius sit praecipua vis, quae et clematitis vocatur, ab aliis cretica
Among the most celebrated plants aristolochia received its name, as is clear, from women with child, because they considered it to be λεχούσαις, that is, “excellent for women in childbed.” Latin writers call it “earth apple,” distinguishing four kinds of it: one with round tubers on the root, and with leaves partly like those of the mallow and partly like those of ivy, but darker and softer: the second is the male plant, with a long root of four fingers’ length, thick as a walking-stick; the third is very long and as slender as a young vine, with especially strong properties, and is called by some clematitis and by other cretica.
nommés pas leurs vertus et operations
Sauf pour le lichen, tous les détails sont dans De latinis nominibus («Alysson … dicitur (ut ait Galenus) quod mirifice morsus a cane rabido curet. [gk] enim rabiem significat. Ephemerium… quo die sumptum fuerit (ut nominis ipsa ratio ostendit) intermit. Bechion autem appellatum est, quod [gk], id es tusses … juvet. Nasturtium, cresson alenois … dicitur a torquendis naribus. Hyoscame, faba suis, vulgo hannebane, … dicitur … quot pastu ejus convellantur sues ». R. a mal lu ses notes, faisant de hanebanes une plante différente de l’hyoscame.
Aristolochia
De άριστοζ, «excellent», et λόχια, «lochies» (Pline, XX, lxxxiv).
Aristolochie
Aristolochie: Harwort, Birthwort.
Aristolochie longhue. Long Birthwory, or male Birthword.
Aristolochie ronde. Round, or female Birthwort.
Aristolochia
Aristolochia. Forms aristologia, aristology, aristoloch, aristolochy. [adopted from medieval Latin aristologia (also Spanish and Italian), and from French aristoloche, 16th century aristolochie, adaptation of Latin aristolochia, adopted from Greek aristoloxeia, formed on aristoloxoj well-born (from its repute in promoting childbirth).]
A genus of shrubs, of which one species, A. Clematitis, the Common Birthwort, is found in Britain as an old escape from cultivation.
1398 John de Trevisa Bartholomeus De proprietatibus rerus xvii. xiv. (1495) 612 Aristologia is a full medycynall herbe though it be bytter.
1541 R. Copland Guydon’s Quest. Cyrurg., With the rote of Arystologie, or of Affodylles.
1551 William Turner A new herball (1568) 43 The seconde kynd of aristolochia.
1578 Henry Lyte, translator Dodoens’ Niewe herball or historie of plantes 312 Sarrasines herbe or Astroloche..Long Aristoloche, Rounde Aristoloche.
1578 Lyte Dodoens 314 The long and rounde Aristolochias growe plentifully in Spayne… called in English Aristologia and of some Byrthwort.
1585 Lloyd Treas. Health D iii, Aristologye caryed upon a man cureth hym.
1601 Philemon Holland, translator Pliny’s History of the world, commonly called the Natural historie II. 226 All the sort of these Aristolochies yeeld an aromaticall odour.
1607 Edward Topsell The history of foure-footed beasts and serpents 269 Aristoloch, otherwise called round Hartwort. 775 Long Aristolochie or Hartwort.