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Uses:

1. Moves the Qi, Opens Obstructions:

-Benefits the Stomach and Liver, used for Obstructions of the Liver
-Colic, stomach pain, Hernia (Dioscorides)
-Edema, difficulty urinating

2. Moves Qi and Blood, Promotes Menstruation:

-Good for the Womb obstructed with Cold, Damp, Blood or Qi
-Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea

3. Resists Poison:

-acute Sore Throat, Tonsillitis (Pliny)
-Fever and Shivering

4. Clears Phlegm, Stop Coughs:

-chronic Cough, Wheezing, shortness of Breath

5. Kills Worms:

-taken with Honey and Salt (Dioscorides)
-kills parasites and maggots (Galen)

6. Externally:

-applied to Bruises, Scars (boiled in wine or the tincture applied)
-boiled in wine and applied as a plaster to
-poultice over the sacrum for Sciatica (since Galen)
-applied with Salt and Honey to Wounds.
-juice is dropped into the ears for earache.
-root was gargled for sore Throat.

Main Combinations:

1. To promote Menstruation:
i. for Amenorrhea, for old Coughs, Calamint with  … available in PRO version
ii. to the above can be added  … available in PRO version
iii. Calamint with  … available in PRO version
2. Cold Phlegm of the Stomach or Lungs, Calamint with  … available in PRO version
3. Poor appetite, Calamint with  … available in PRO version
4. To benefit Memory, Calamint with  … available in PRO version
5. Hydrocephalus, Calamint with  … available in PRO version
6. Douche for Uterine Pain, Calamint with  … available in PRO version

Major Formulas:

Syrup of Mugwort (Augustana)
Syrup of Stoechas (Fernelius)
Electuary of Calamint (Galen)
Powder of Calamint Compound (Nicholas)
Powder to Warm the Head (Bononiense)
Powder for Epilepsy of Philon

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