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Nicholas Culpeper

1616 – 1654

Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, and astrologer who systematically paired medicinal plants with planetary correspondences in the tradition of astrological medicine. His Complete Herbal (1653) catalogued hundreds of herbs alongside their astrological signatures and therapeutic uses, making botanical medicine broadly accessible to ordinary people outside the guild-controlled medical establishment. His Astrological Judgement of Diseases (1655) remains one of the most detailed surviving works on early modern medical astrology.

astrologyherbal remediesmedicinal plant propertiesMedicinal plant useherbal magicherbal medicine preparationHerbal magic and propertiesplanetary correspondencesHermeticismAstrological HerbalismEuropean Herbalism / Georgian MedicineAstrology and Horoscope Casting

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Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

1653

Intermediate

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