Ancient herbalists from the 16th to the 17th century. Handbook of the medicinal properties of stones. Russian ancient books-herbalists

Old Russian medical book of the XIV century. Ed. Pushkarev L.N.
Domostroy. Herbalist. Healer. XVI century
Russian Old Believer Clinic. 1772. Edited by G.A. Leontiev.
Benediktov N. Self-instruction manual for rural treatment 1-2. 1866.
The kingdom of medicinal herbs and plants (medicinal herbalist). 1870.
The healing powers of nature. 1871.
Mozharovsky A. Herbalist. 1890.
Pavlovsky V. Generally accessible folk medicine. 1907.
Gundobin N. Home Clinic. 1911.
Ippolitova A.B. Russian handwritten herbalists of the 17th-18th centuries

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BOOKS ON RAW FOOD IN ONE ARCHIVE

Everyone knows that our country has a colossal variety of vegetables, fruits, berries and nuts. Misusing all of this wealth robs us of millions of pounds of nutritious foods. The more our body receives vegetables and fruits, the healthier we become, because the most valuable substances are found exclusively in raw food. This archive is a collection of the best raw food books with recipes and recommendations. The books are recommended for all fans of healthy, natural, mindful eating and raw food diets. The archive contains:

S.A. Budilov Human body instruction manual. 2010.
S.A. Budilov New body. New organs. 2010.doc
Butenko V. Greens for life. 2012.
Zamyatina N.G. Robinson's Kitchen. 2013.
Zeland V. Live kitchen. 2011.
Sauerkraut without salt.
A.K. Koscheev Wild-growing edible plants in our diet. 1981.
Sebastianovich P. A new book on the raw food diet. 2009.
N.V. Tarasov Raw Food. 1931.
Ugolev A.M. Adequate nutrition theory. 1991.

RUSSIAN FOLK FAIRY TALES AND PRINTS OF 1906

Edition 1906. The sister of the famous painter E. D. Polenova was an outstanding artist and devotee in collecting and preserving folk art. In her trips to the villages of Russia, she collected and sketched peasant utensils, wrote down fairy tales, nursery rhymes, jokes.
For lovers of the Russian language, it will be interesting to read these fairy tales in pre-revolutionary spelling.
These little books are poetic and decorative at the same time; their style is very close to folk art. Elena Polenova's fairy tales are not a fictional world with fictional characters, they are life itself, into which a miracle simply came. A. Benois wrote: "She was the first Russian artist to pay attention to the most artistic area of ​​life - to the children's world, to its strange, deeply poetic fantasy."

UNIQUE HISTORY TEXTBOOK FROM Tsar Ivan the Terrible XVI century.

Translation of the 16th century Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible Chronicle of the 16th century into modern Russian from the death of Alexander the Great to Ivan the Terrible. These are three volumes entitled The History Textbook.

DOMOSTROY OF DIFFERENT YEARS OF EDITIONS (1849-2014)

Domostroy (full name - the Book called "Domostroy") is a monument of Russian literature of the 16th century, which is a collection of rules, advice and instructions in all areas of human and family life, including social, family, economic and religious issues. Best known in the mid-16th century edition in Church Slavonic, attributed to Archpriest Sylvester. Written in a living language, with frequent use of proverbs and sayings

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SLAVIC NAMES(COLLECTION OF SLAVIC PERSONAL NAMES) 1867

Slavic nomenclature or Collection of Slavic personal names in alphabetical order
Collection of Slavic personal names, compiled by priest M. Moroshkin. The human name is not an empty sound that does not have any meaning, but it has a meaning, it expresses a certain thought, it denotes a certain property and quality, so, according to Pott, for philologists in the strict sense there are no proper names, but only names exist common nouns. The decomposition and separation of proper personal names by their roots will directly and clearly reveal their origin from nicknames that have a common noun meaning. This quality or common noun property of personal names belongs to all peoples, both ancient and modern.

Russian handwritten physicians and herbalists of the 17th-20th centuries. DOWNLOAD

Russian handwritten physicians and herbalists of the 17th-20th centuries.
Publications

Acting herbalist from South Siberia / Podgot. text, foreword, vocabulary by V.A. Lipinskaya, G.A. Leontyeva // Traditional experience of nature management in Russia / Otv. ed. L.V. Danilova, A.K. Sokolov. M., 1998. S. 414-479. [Herbalist of the late 18th century. Altai Regional Museum of Local Lore. No. OF 14159/173]

Old Russian medical book // Rare sources on the history of Russia. Ed. A.A. Novoselsky and L.N. Pushkarev. M., 1977. [Clinic of the 17th century. RGADA. Collected TsGALI. Op. II. No. 176]

Kotkova N.S. Healer of the last third of the 17th century. // Sources on the history of the Russian language XI-XVII centuries. / Resp. ed. V.G. Demyanov, N.I. Tarabasova. M., 1991.S. 173-195. [Department of Manuscripts of the IRL RAS. F. 3 (Kireevskys' archive). No. 1a]

V. V. Nimchuk Mova of the Ukrainian herbalist XVI century // Motivational knowledge. 1976. No. 5. S. 43-55. [Bucharest, State Archives, no. 740]

Zabivkin I."Herbalist" // Olonets week. Petrozavodsk. 1911. No. 17. S. 12-14. [Undated Herbalist]

Blinov N. The 17th century medicine book // Commemorative book of the Vyatka province and the calendar for 1911. Vyatka, 1911.S. 58-73 (second pagination).

Vinogradov N. Conspiracies, charms, saving prayers, and so on. SPb., 1909. Issue. 2. [S. 28-41: herbalist ser. XVIII century]

Zabelin I.E. The history of Russian life since ancient times. Part II. History of Russia from the beginning to the death of Yaroslav I. M., 1912. 2nd ed. (1st ed .: M., 1879) [S. 261-268: Excerpts from 17th-18th century herbalists].

Book, verb herbalist [Publication of V.V. Guberti] // Archive of historical and practical information relating to Russia. Book. 1.SPb., 1859.S. 76-83 (4th pagination). [18th century herbalist]

Lakhtin M.Yu. Ancient monuments of medical writing. M., 1911. (Notes of the Moscow Archaeological Institute. Vol. 17) [Clinic of the 17th century. State Historical Museum. Synodal meeting No. 481]

Novombergsky N.Ya. Word and Deed of the Sovereign (Materials). Tomsk, 1909. T. 2. S. 75-77 [With the publication of the herbalist from the investigation file 1703 RGADA. F. 371. Op. 287. Elm. 4. D. 85]

Self-medication of the common people according to herbalists // OGV. 1884. No. 40. S. 385-386. No. 41. S. 395-396. No. 42. S. 405-406. No. 43. S. 414-415. No. 44. S. 423-424. No. 45. S. 430-431. No. 46. S. 441-442. [Articles from the herbalist 1767]

Sreznevsky V.I. Description of manuscripts and books collected for the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the Olonets Territory. SPb., 1913. [S. 481-513: Olonets collection of conspiracies of the second quarter of the 17th century. (with an article on grass is silent) BAN. 21.9.10]

Herbalists' texts extracted from the cases // Mikhailova T.V. Witchcraft processes in Russia: the official ideology and practices of folk religiosity (1740-1801). Diss. ... Cand. historical sciences. SPb., 2003. Appendix 6.P. 269-285. [herbalists from the investigation file of 1770 RGIA. Form 796. Op. 51. D.322. L. 21v.-24v .; herbalist from the investigation case of 1749 (RGIA. F.796. Op. 30. D.18. L. 331-338 rev.)]

Herbalist // Florinsky V.M. Russian folk herbalists and doctors. Collection of medical manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries. Kazan, 1879. S. 3-15 [herbalist first. floor. XVIII century]

Likarski and gospodarski poradniki of the XVIII century. / Pidgotuvav before seeing V.A. Peredriєnko. Kiev, 1984. (Memoirs of the Ukrainian language of the XVIII century) - 128 p.

Belief in the magical power of stones goes back millennia.
In ancient India, the best emeralds were considered men, in China, jade was considered as the most perfect embodiment of the masculine principle in nature. In ancient Babylon, precious stones were alive for people, they lived and ached. There were male stones (large and shiny) and female stones (not so beautiful). The Babylonians believed that stars could transform into animals, metals and stones. They considered lapis lazuli as one of the star stones.

The Phoenicians carried this belief to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
Symbolic images were engraved on the stones, enhancing their magical properties: on amethyst - a bear, on beryl - a frog, on chalcedony - a rider with a spear, on sapphire - a ram, etc.

In "Izbornik Svyatoslav" a stone is attributed to each month, and these gems are mentioned in the same order as in the Hebrew Pentateuch, written one and a half millennia earlier.
In the 11th century in Latin was written in verse "The Book of Stones", which describes the places of extraction of about 70 minerals, and also tells about their healing and magical power.

Properties of stones


In ancient times, a certain property was attributed to each stone: diamond - purity and innocence, sapphire - constancy, red ruby ​​- passion, pink ruby ​​- tender love, emerald - hope, topaz - jealousy, turquoise - caprice, amethyst - devotion, disgrace - inconstancy, sardonyx - marital happiness, agate - health, chrysoprase - success, hyacinth - protection, aquamarine - failure.

For thousands of years, the stone was also an irreplaceable medicine that was used for various serious ailments, powders from stones were prescribed by doctors, and they could be bought in pharmacies.

In the middle of the 18th century, German pharmacists prescribed complex recipes with powdered crystals of gems - emerald, sapphire, ruby, topaz, lapis lazuli.

The Krakow Museum contains a recipe that was written by Nicolaus Copernicus - evidence that he believed in the healing power of precious stones. In his recipes, he used powders of pearls, emeralds, sapphire, silver, gold, etc.

However, gems were naturally very expensive. Only very rich people could afford to grind them into powder, so the German doctors of the 16th century recommend, for example, to take more pomegranate instead of sapphire. Something like the way they now write about herbs in medical books.

Belief in the healing power of stones, in their magical properties has been passed down from generation to generation.

Descriptions of the magical and healing properties of gems are given in almost all books on alchemy, in the books of writers of the past and the present day.

Determining the value of a stone

In France, Alphonse Louis Constant, who lived in the 19th century, wrote a treatise "Stones are a living thing", where he outlined the ideas of ancient and medieval authors about precious stones, their value, variety, mystical and medicinal properties. In terms of value, he arranged the stones as follows:

Gems of the first rank include: diamond, sapphire, ruby, chrysoberyl, alexandrite, emerald, spinel, euclase.

Gems of the second rank include: topaz, aquamarine, beryl, red tourmaline, demantoid, phenakite, blood amethyst, almandine, hyacinth, opal, zircon.

He referred to semiprecious stones: garnet, epidote, dioptase, turquoise, green and variegated tourmalines, pure rock crystal, rauchtopaz, light amethyst, chalcedony, moonstone, sun stone, labrador.

Colored stones include: lapis lazuli, bloodstone, jade, amazonite, labradorite, eye spars, malachite, aventurine, varieties of spar and jasper, vesuvian, smoky and rose quartz, jet, amber, coral, mother of pearl.

The value of pearls varies.

Classification of gemstones by color

In the same treatise, the classification of precious stones by color is given on the basis of the found shades:

Colorless stones- transparent: diamond, rock crystal, topaz; opaque: chalcedony, milk opal.

Transparent bluish-green gems: aquamarine, topaz, euclase, tourmaline; opaque: amazonite, jasper.

Transparent blue and cyan gems: sapphire, aquamarine, tourmaline, topaz; opaque: lapis lazuli, turquoise.

Transparent purple and pinkish gems: ruby, spinel, tourmaline, almandine.

Transparent dark red and brown stones: pomegranate, hyacinth, tourmaline, amber.

Transparent yellow and gold gems: beryl, topaz, tourmaline, zircon, smoky quartz, amber;

Opaque: carnelian, aventurine, semi-fallen.

Obscure black stones: jet, agate, black tourmaline (sherl), bloodstone.

Transparent variegated stones: tourmaline; opaque: jasper, heliotrope, agates, onyx, eye spars.

Transparent and translucent iridescent stones: moonstone, hairy, labrador, noble opal, pearls.

Horoscopes of stones and minerals
Ruby

Element - Fire. Ruby is one of the four most expensive gemstones. Very hard. The color of the ruby ​​is red, bright red, dark red or violet-red. Ruby is named from the Latin ruber - red. Known since antiquity, used for inserts into jewelry, ornaments.

Due to its hot, glowing color, ruby ​​has always been considered a revitalizing stone, strengthening the heart and banishing longing. Ruby is corundum associated with Leo. This is a stone of power, and therefore it can be worn by people who have reached a certain position, people associated with the karma of other people. The rest of the ruby ​​cannot be worn. Or wear it only in exceptional cases. Ruby is a stone of brilliance, vanity, creative return. It takes away too much energy from a person and can cause an overexpenditure of energy, too much desire to shine and be noticeable. Ruby is the pure power of the Sun in Leo. It should be noted that people with blood diseases are not shown wearing a ruby ​​either. It also should not be worn by people with high blood pressure - they may have a cerebral hemorrhage. People with low blood pressure can wear a ruby, especially fire signs: Leo, Sagittarius, Aries. This is their stone, it gives power and shine. Ruby is also a magic stone, gives power over the lower astral, over the lower elements. But it is suitable only for the magician who has already received several degrees of initiation. A student who strives for excellence in this art, wearing a ruby ​​is contraindicated. Ruby is good for fire signs. Capricorns can wear it, but they get used to it for a long time.

It is better to buy a ruby ​​on the 17th lunar day, wear it on the index finger, faceted. It is stronger in summer and spring. Ruby is recommended for paralysis, anemia, inflammation, fractures and pain in joints and bone tissues, asthma, weakness of the heart, rheumatic heart disease, inflammation of the bursa, inflammation of the middle ear, chronic depression, insomnia, arthritis, diseases of the spine, chronic inflammation of the tonsils, rheumatism. Ruby lowers blood pressure and helps heal psoriasis. Helps with exhaustion of the nervous system, relieves night fears, helps with epilepsy. Has a tonic effect. Red yagont-ruby in Central Asia was considered to heal epilepsy and plague, if you eat a small fraction of it. According to Armenian beliefs, a ruby ​​put in your mouth will quench your thirst, and worn in a ring will protect you from the effects of a blow (apparently, a modern stroke). Vietnamese medicine classifies the red ruby ​​as beneficial in the treatment of heart disease and as a source of joy. European books on stones extolled the real and fictional properties of the ruby. The Lapidarium of the King of Castile Alfonso X calls it the one that removes sorrows and gives joy. Whoever wears it will not feel upset, and if the stone is crushed into powder and mixed with heart medicine, then it will be very effective in treating inflammation and the destruction of blood clots. Apparently, ruby ​​was added to the drug to enhance its effect.

The 13th century Indian medical literature saw ruby ​​as a valuable remedy for gas and biliousness. In a treatise on the stones of the XIV century, attributed to John Mandeville (an Englishman, who wrote, however, in French), it is said that the happy owner of a sparkling ruby ​​will live in peace and harmony with all people, that he will not lose any lands, pi honors and will protected from all dangers. The stone will protect his house, garden and vineyards from storm damage. But for this, a rimmed stone had to be worn on the left side of the body. In the Russian Healer of the 16th century, it is said about the ruby: whoever wears a yacht is red, he will not see terrible dashing dreams, he will strengthen his heart and will be honest in people. By the type of light radiation, Lithotherapy considers it favorable for the functioning of the brain and heart, beneficially affecting weak-willed people, awakening courage, responsibility, striving for leadership and relieving an inferiority complex.

Indian astrology calls the ruby ​​a stone of power, strength and violent energy associated with the karma of purposeful and bright people. This clot of energy strengthens strength, drives away melancholy and protects from evil spells. The main mystical property of the ruby ​​is to give rise to an attraction to the great. On the hand of a noble, moral person, he leads him to victories and great deeds, and gives ordinary people happiness and love, and. changing its color, warns them of danger. It protects from evil spirits, spells, strengthens the heart, restores lost strength, drives away melancholy, gives women fertility.

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Authentic old Russian herbalist

The history of medicine knows a huge number of herbalists (hence the words "poison", "poison", "poison"), healers and "greenery" ("potion" - a herb, herbal infusion, poison, etc. made from herbs). Many of them are full of purely fabulous properties and descriptions of non-existent plants. Some of them are quite applicable to "practice" today. however, it was precisely for such books or descriptions copied in notebooks, right up to Peter's times, that people were seized like sorcerers, tortured, hung on a rack, burned with torches, learning that the "witchcraft" roots appear in the "Volkhov" notebooks, mercilessly burned in log cabins.

The names of many herbs are not now generally accepted and "official". However, many herbs are quite recognizable.

So "Adam's head" is actually better known as mandrake, or, in other words, scopolia. "Crow's Eye" - now it is called: it is quite an ordinary small plant in our pine-spruce forests. "Eider" - birch chaga, a growth on the bark. Etc.

In Travnik there are - Elecampane, Angelica, St. John's wort, Centaury, Ivan da Marya, Nettle, Lovage, Mother and Stepmother, Molodilo, Sow thistle, fern (meaning, apparently: "bracken") Peter's Cross, Companion (plantain ), Lumbago (snowdrop), Chamomile, Celandine, Sorrel and others not mentioned here.

Herbs were often used more fully than now - in fresh water extracts, "gruel" from an immediately chopped plant, in powders, in vapors (for example, in a bath), in smoking. Neither the roots, nor the leaves, nor the flowers, nor the fruits were forgotten.

The now widespread alcoholic tinctures in the old days were replaced by more gentle, now forgotten fatty extracts, for example, decoctions in milk or melted lard (see, for example, the herb "Archangel"), dilutions in the same milk or sour cream.

Many plants, especially freshly plucked ones, were carried with them, which gave constant percutaneous contact and, despite the primitiveness of use, could well help to cure some ailments. Plants were also practiced embedded in a lump of beeswax, also worn on oneself, which also made sense - through the wax, the substances quite easily penetrated the skin and "celled".

If we compare various herbalists, in particular the wonderful "witchcraft" and the usual "healing" ones, then one can notice some amusing moments of how ordinary things become magical.

So, some herbs "turned" into "magic", apparently due to a simple misunderstanding of the phrase read in the herbalist. For example, when the doctor wrote (see, for example, "hme") that the herb helps "from the saber" - he meant the usual treatment of a chopped wound.

But when an illiterate person picked up a notebook with recipes, it seemed to him that it was a question of magical protection "from the saber" with the help of the named herb. And then, rewriting the recipe or giving it to someone else, he “recommended” such a herb no longer as “healing”, but as ... magical, magical! So legends were born, mysteries and miracles multiplied, unprecedented magic appeared.

So, mandrake contains potent alkaloids (in particular "scopolamine"), which can poison and heal quite quickly. That is why it, like other similar herbs, was considered a "magic" herb. It was used in particular: to solder the "bewitched" (for example, women who are hysterical, etc.).

Another "magic" herb was considered to be fern. It was advised to mine it on the day of John the Baptist, to dig, after putting silver on the ground on four sides, usually large silver rubles, and, for the "reliability" of extraction and protection from evil spirits, more.

It was supposed to dig "without looking back" so as not to beat ("crush") the "evil spirits" guarding the grass, and therefore any casual passer-by in the forest could seem to a sorcerer shaking with fear - such "evil spirits". Fearing to die, the sorcerer ran away, abandoning what he had begun.

It's funny, but, perhaps, just such, accidentally left by the "scared" sorcerer, "silver" led other villagers, including other sorcerers, to the crazy idea that with the help of a fern you can ... "look for treasures"!

So, as if in a child's game "a spoiled phone", another regular "ring of opinions" arose, among the already existing thousands of the same "rings" - popular rumors "fixated on itself".

In any "Travnik", despite the rather ingenuous descriptions, they are sometimes quite accurate, which is desirable to draw attention to those who want to use the recipes of distant antiquity. It should be borne in mind that the name that is used today is not always meant for the herb in the old description.

Sometimes completely different herbs are covered under one name. Therefore, the very description of the plant must be taken very carefully, because a mistake can be expensive.

So, the often encountered expression "grass as tall as an arrow" means literally - the length "with an arrow", that is, about a meter; , in "igloo" - all these are sizes compared with objects.

The expression "leaves like money" means - round leaves (like "money", coins).

Words such as "the color is red" can turn out to be twofold in meaning - either the whole plant is reddish, and its flowers are reddish.

The meaning of many words has changed from era to era. The word "thin" did not mean something "skinny", but bad. The word "kind" is not something affectionate, but good.

However, since some of the terms are now completely forgotten, or even simply not used, we will cite a few words found in this and in other "Herbalists":

"Budylye" - stem part.

"Epic" - long stem

"Crow" - dark

"Hryvnia" is a monetary unit in Ancient Rus. In the mentions of herbalists, where the grass is ritually (magically) torn “through the gryvna”, apparently its original meaning is meant, “grivna” is a necklace made of silver or gold (“mane” is a neck).

"Hernia" - from the word "gnaw", "gnawing": that is, constantly felt acute "pain".

"Efimok" is a coin.

"Gland", "nodule" - deep subcutaneous suppuration, protruding through the skin, like a bulge.

"Keela" is a tumor, often of allergic origin, which develops very quickly and therefore was attributed to witchcraft in the old days.

"Damage" - unlike "hernia", there is a disease without constantly resembling "gnawing", that is, pain. Nowadays, in order to attract advertising to the practitioners of “non-traditional” medicine, they deliberately call only some harmful “witchcraft” consequences that an ordinary doctor allegedly cannot “remove” by “traditional” methods.

"Span" is a measure of length, a segment between the stretched thumb and forefinger of an average human hand.

"Branches" - branches, branches, side from the stem.

"Ramen" is a dark coniferous, usually spruce forest.

"Sorrow" is any disease.

"Scarlet" is red.

"Black disease" - epilepsy.

It should be borne in mind that the "Herbalist" we cite was chosen, in fact, only because of its brevity. Our plans, among other things, were also to bring systematized short excerpts, for example, from an extremely curious work of quite official medicine of ancient times, known under the magnificent and promising title typical of ancient times, "The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Healing, compiled by Her personal doctor. Imperial Majesty, Catherine II, Professor N. Ambodik, in 1784 "(St. Petersburg: 1784).

This book, in contrast to the "folk" herbalists, contains information that has been sufficiently tested and verified on dozens of patients, while the "Herbalist" cited below contains recipes that are sometimes difficult to verify, sometimes incomprehensible, and sometimes simply, purely "fabulous".

The text given below is not adapted, cited from the collection "Domostroy" (Moscow: Soviet Russia, 1990). Notes in brackets, according to our text - A.A.

This text is an introductory fragment. From the book Saffron Mantle. (THE SAFRON ROBE) the author Ramp Tuesday Lobsang

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A herbalist in miniature ... how I miss our long conversations about literature and philosophy on quiet, cozy evenings in the kitchen, when a lonely candle burned out on the table, throwing reflections on glasses of cold wine, the aromas of mint, nettle, black currant leaves and

From the book The Universal Key to Self-awareness. Adhyatmajnacha Yogeshwar the author Siddharameshwar Maharaj

62. Genuine God without qualities. Genuine God is Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss). Consciousness in the body is God. The awareness that protects the body from various accidents - from a snake, from a horse, etc. - is God. We need to find out who we are. What's in this

From the book The Greatest Mysteries of Anomalous Phenomena the author Nepomniachtchi Nikolai Nikolaevich

LIKE THE ALIEN DISCOVERY FILM IS GENUINE! In 1995-1996, in a number of countries and here in Russia, a sensational film was shown on television about the autopsy of a humanoid creature from a UFO that allegedly crashed in 1947 in the state of New Mexico. Video