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Agrimony

Agrimonia eupatoria

Agrimony appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk
moderate
Books
10
Contexts
3
Mentions
66
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Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name
agrimony
Latin name
Agrimonia eupatoria(candidate)

Safety

moderate

Modern safety and interactions data is limited; medicinal-use claims remain conservative.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

  • EMA HMPC: Modern safety and interactions data is limited; medicinal-use claims remain conservative.

Aliases

agrimonyAgrimonia eupatoria

Agrimony in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, folk magic, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Preparations and ritual uses

Glutinating simple

high

Culpeper places agrimony in the dispensatory class of glutinating herbs, useful as classification evidence rather than a stand-alone dosage instruction.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES IN THE NEW DISPENSATORY.

Agrimony Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Medicine

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.

Matched as agrimony; high confidence.

Agrimony Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

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Cover of Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...rehound, Willow leaves, &c. *Glutinate.* Marsh-mallows, Pimpernel, Centaury, Chamepitis, Mallows, Germander, Horsetail, Agrimony, Maudlin, Strawberry leaves, Woad-chervil, Plantain, Cinquefoil, Comfry, Bugle, Self-heal, Woundwort, Tormentil, Rupture-wort, Knot-grass, Tobacco. *Expel wind.* Wormwood, Garlick, Dill, Smallage, Chamomel, Epithimum, Fennel, Juniper, Marjoram, Origanum, Savory both winter and summer. Tansy is good to cleanse the stomach and bowels of rough viscous flegm, and humours that stick to them, which the flegmatic constitution of the winter us..."
A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES IN THE NEW DISPENSATORY.Open in Reader
Preparationalias: agrimonyhigh confidence
Cover of The Family Herbal

The Family Herbal

John Hill
1755
"...pulp within. The root is fibrous. The seeds are used in medicine; an emulsion made of them cures the jaundice. ### HEMP AGRIMONY. *Eupatorium cannabinum*. A TALL plant growing by waters, with tufts of red flowers and leaves, divided in the manner of those of hemp. It grows five feet high; the stalk is round, thick, reddish, and very upright. The leaves are large, of a pale green, and fingered; they stand two at each joint, the flowers grow in bunches as big as a man's fist, on the tops of the branches, and are of a bright red. The root fresh gathered and boiled ..."
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Preparationalias: agrimonyhigh confidence
Cover of Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533
"...ck; to Aquarius, dragon's-wort; to Pisces, hart-wort. And to the Planets these, viz. : To Saturn, sengreen; to Jupiter, agrimony; to Mars, sulphur- wort; to the Sun, marigold; to Venus, wound- wort; to Mercury, mullein; to the Moon, peony. But Hermes, whom Albertus follows, distributes to the Planets these, viz. : To Saturn, the daffodil; to Jupiter, henbane; to Mars, rib-wort; to the Sun, knot-grass; to Venus, vervain; to Mercury, cinque-foil; to the Moon, goose-foot. We also know by experience that asparagus is under Aries, and garden basil under Scorpio; for ..."
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Preparationalias: agrimonyhigh confidence
Cover of Demonology and Devil-lore

Demonology and Devil-lore

Moncure Daniel Conway
1879
"...lton represents Michael as purging Adam’s eyes with it. In the Tyrol it is believed to confer fine vision and used with agrimony (flowers of Argos, the many-eyed); in Posen it is said also to heal serpent-bites. By this route it came into the cauldron of the wizard and witch. In Drayton’s incantation it is said— Then sprinkles she the juice of rue, With nine drops of the midnight dew From lunary distilling. This association of lunary, or moon-wort, once supposed to cure lunacy, with rue is in harmony with the mythology of both. An old oracle, said to have been r..."
Chapter XX.Open in Reader
Preparationalias: agrimonyhigh confidence
Cover of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Charles Mackay
1841
"...is a sign that you will receive, in a short time, a favour from the hands of those from whom you would least expect it. Agrimony. This herb denotes that there will be sickness in your house. Anemone predicts love. Auriculas, in beds, denotes luck; in pots, marriage; while to gather them, foretells widowhood. Bilberries predict a pleasant excursion. Broom-flowers an increase of family. Cauliflowers predict that all your friends will slight you, or that you will fall into poverty and find no one to pity you. Dock-leaves, a present from the country. \* It is quite ..."
Page 335Open in Reader
Astrologyalias: agrimonyhigh confidence

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Books Mentioning Agrimony

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

10 books
Cover of Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

agrimony
48 mentionscited
Cover of Demonology and Devil-lore

Demonology and Devil-lore

Moncure Daniel Conway | 1879

agrimony
4 mentionscited
Cover of The Family Herbal

The Family Herbal

John Hill | 1755

agrimony
4 mentionscited
Cover of Anatomy of Melancholy

Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton | 1621

agrimony
2 mentions
Cover of Illustration of the Occult Sciences

Illustration of the Occult Sciences

Ebenezer Sibly | 1784

agrimony
2 mentions
Cover of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

E. Cobham Brewer | 1870

agrimony
2 mentions
Cover of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Charles Mackay | 1841

agrimony
1 mentioncited
Cover of Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533

agrimony
1 mentioncited
Cover of Genethlialogia

Genethlialogia

John Gadbury | 1658

agrimony
1 mention
Cover of Clavis Astrologiae Elimata

Clavis Astrologiae Elimata

Henry Coley | 1669

agrimony
1 mention