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QR 10 Tanacetum Vulgare (Tansy leaves)
Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th Century astrologer and physician, describes the virtues of Tansy and wrote: "Let those women that desire children love this herb, it is their best companion, their husbands excepted." He states that "Dame Venus was minded to pleasure women with child by this herb, for there grows not an herb, fitter for their use than this; it is just as though it were cut out for the purpose."
Culpeper also mentions that the Juice of the Tansy herb, as well as the Tansy Seeds could be given to children to rid them of worms.
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Culpepper's English physician; and complete herbal
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