Preparation
highKing's American Dispensatory preserves a sweetened infusion containing sarsaparilla, senna, pale rose, anise, and borage flowers.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Borage
Borago officinalis
Borage 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
- high
- Books
- 13
- Contexts
- 4
- Mentions
- 188
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- borage
- Latin name
- Borago officinalis(candidate)
- Identity note
- Often paired with bugloss in historical sources.
Safety
high
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids can raise liver-risk concerns unless preparations are PA-free.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- NCBI Bookshelf: Pyrrolizidine alkaloids can raise liver-risk concerns unless preparations are PA-free.
Aliases
borageBorago officinalisbugloss
Borage in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Borage (Borago officinalis) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Astrology
highCulpeper groups borage with bugloss and another related plant as herbs of Jupiter under Leo, calling them cordial and strengthening to the heart.
Preparation
highBrewer defines a cool tankard or cool cup as wine and water with lemon, sugar, and borage, sometimes with cucumber slices.
Preparations and ritual uses
Sweetened borage-flower infusion
highKing's records a sweetened infusion containing borage flowers with sarsaparilla, senna, pale rose, and anise.
Cool tankard
highBrewer defines the cool tankard or cool cup as wine and water with lemon, sugar, and borage, sometimes cucumber.
Borage Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Christian Astrology.
Matched as borage; high confidence.
Astrology
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Clavis Astrologiae Elimata.
Matched as borage; high confidence.
Preparation
9 passages across 8 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as borage; high confidence.
Ritual
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Myths of the Cherokee.
Matched as bugloss; high confidence.
Borage Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...LLY, LONDON | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Bird’s Foot | Bishop’s Weed | Bistort *or* Snakeweed | | White Briony | Borage | Brooklime | | Bucks-horn Plantain | Brank Ursine | Blue Bottle | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Burdock | Butter-bur | Wall Bugloss | | Bugle | Camomile | Carraway | | Centaury | Wild Carrot | Celandine | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Chervill | Comfry | Cleavers | | Coltsfoot | Crabs Claws *or* Fresh water Soldier | Cowslip | | Columbine | Shrub Cinquefoil | Costmary | | THOMAS KELL..."
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King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...ration, known as .SV/-o/) rfr Cuiisinier. which was a sweetened infusion of sar.saparilla, senna, pale rose, anise, and borage flowers. Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage. — A vehicle for potassium iodide, etc. Used, but probably valueless, in sypfii(ii<. dose="" i="" fluid="" ounce.="" syrupus="" scill="" s.="" p.="" syex7p="" of="" squill.="" preparation.="" vinegar="" squill="" four="" hundred="" and="" fiftv="" cubic="" centimeters="" co="" fl.s.="" m="" sugar="" eight="" grammes="" gm.="" ut.av="" oz8..96="" grs.l="" water="" a="" sufficient="" quantitv="" ..."
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The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"distillation, which is good for the tooth-ach. It is to be dropped on cotton, and to be put into the tooth. ### BORAGE. Borago. A ROUGH plant common in our gardens, with great leaves, and beautiful blue flowers. It grows two feet high; the stalks are thick, round, fleshy, and juicy; and covered with a kind of hairiness so sturdy that it almost amounts to the nature of prickles. The leaves are oblong, broad, very rough, and wrinkled; and they have the same sort of hairiness, but less stiff than that of the stalk; the largest grow from the root, but thos..."
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Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533
"...h, beryl, sapphire, emerald, green jasper, and those of airy colors. Amongst plants and trees, sea-green, garden basil, bugloss, mace, spike, mint, mastic, elecampane, the violet, darnel, henbane, the poplar-tree, and those which are called lucky trees, as the oak, the aesculus, or horse-chestnut, which is like an oak but much larger; the holm or holly-tree, the beech-tree, the hazel-tree, the service-tree, the white fig-tree, the pear-tree, the apple-tree, the vine, the plum-tree, the ash, the dogwood tree, and the olive-tree, and also oil-tree. Also all manne..."
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Preparationalias: buglosshigh confidence
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer
1870
"... cool huudred my seU."— Mackenzie, Cool Tankard (A) or Cool Cup. A drink made of wine and water, with lemon, sugar, and borage ; sometimes also slices of cucumber. Coon (A) means a racoon, a small American animal valued for its fur. It is about the size of a fox, and lodges in hollow trees. A ffone coon. A person in a terrible fix ; one on the verge of ruin. The coon being hunted for its fur is a " gone coon" when it has no escape from its pursuers. It is said that Colonel Crockett was one day out racoon - shooting in North America, when he levelled his gun at..."
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Books Mentioning Borage
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
boragebugloss
97 mentionscited
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
boragebugloss
58 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
boragebugloss
7 mentionscited
Myths of the Cherokee
James Mooney | 1900
bugloss
5 mentions
Manual of Astrology
Raphael (Robert Cross Smith) | 1828
boragebugloss
4 mentions
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
boragebugloss
3 mentions
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
buglossborage
3 mentions
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
borage
2 mentionscited
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
borage
2 mentionscited
Genethlialogia
John Gadbury | 1658
bugloss
2 mentions
Christian Astrology
William Lilly | 1647
borage
2 mentions
The Influence of the Stars
Rosa Baughan | 1880
borage
2 mentions
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
bugloss
1 mentioncited