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Dr Reason and Dr Experience: Culpeper’s Assignation of Planetary Rulers in The English Physitian (2015)

Tobyn, Graeme (Author)

Pages: 473-490
Publication date: 2015
Language: English

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Culpeper's herbal The English Physitian (1652) and its enlarged edition of the following year is unusual in its consistent attribution of a planetary correspondence for each plant, for which' astrological botany' it became the subject of negative scrutiny by historians of the herbal. While astrology was traditionally linked to the medical art, its influence did not normally extend to the identification of specific remedies needed in a given case by their astrological 'rulers'. Culpeper was using a macrocosm-microcosm analogy that was an aspect of the cosmology of Paracelsian medicine. This was applied both to the gathering of the herbs under a propitiolls sky and their clinical use according to astrological concepts of sympathy and antipathy. The astrological authors among the cited sources for the herbal, notably Antoine Mizauld, appear to have contributed little to Culpeper's correspondences. Analysis of these according to his explicit or implicit justifications in the text show that a herb might correspond to a planet because it strengthens the organ ruled by the planet, or by the doctrine of signatures or because its manifest qualities are shared by the planet. Over half of the herbs have no such correspondence and are often linked according to their medicinal actions on target organs, a link frequently supported by their visual appearance according to a doctrine of signatures.

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