Preparation
highCulpeper places cloves in Species Cordiales Temperatae, a cordial powder that also includes cinnamon, angelica, tormentil, pearls, coral, saffron, gold, and silver.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Clove
Syzygium aromaticum
Clove 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
- 43
- Contexts
- 5
- Mentions
- 290
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- clove
- Latin name
- Syzygium aromaticum(candidate)
- Identity note
- Clove can also be a garlic segment in recipes; cloves as spice are the intended anchor.
Safety
moderate
Clove oil can irritate tissues and concentrated eugenol products require caution.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- MSK About Herbs: Clove oil can irritate tissues and concentrated eugenol products require caution.
Aliases
cloveclovesSyzygium aromaticum
Clove in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Clove (Syzygium aromaticum) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, ritual uses, and folk magic. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Ritual
highAgrippa uses cloves as a ritual fumigation ingredient for Mercury and also names them among odoriferous fruits attributed to Jupiter.
Folk magic
highFrazer records Javanese fertility practice around clove trees, where human sexual symbolism and the cry for more cloves are used to encourage fruiting.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1906
CHAPTER XI THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEXES ON VEGETATION
Preparations and ritual uses
Cordial powder
highCulpeper's cordial species uses cloves with cinnamon, aloes wood, stag-heart bone, angelica, avens, tormentil, pearls, coral, saffron, gold, and silver.
Mercury fumigation
highAgrippa's Mercury fume combines cloves with mastic, frankincense, cinquefoil, achate, and animal materials in a planetary ritual recipe.
Clove Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as cloves; high confidence.
Astrology
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Encyclopaedia of Antiquities.
Matched as cloves; high confidence.
Folk magic
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as cloves; high confidence.
Preparation
5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.
Matched as cloves; high confidence.
Ritual
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Liber 777.
Matched as cloves; high confidence.
Clove Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"... impregnable. #### *Species Cordiales Temperatæ.* *College.*] Take of wood of Aloes, Spodium of each a dram, Cinnamon, Cloves, bone of a Stag’s-heart, the roots of Angelica, Avens, and Tormentil, of each a dram and an half, Pearls prepared six drams, raw Silk toasted, both sorts of Coral of each two drams, Jacinth, Emerald, Samphire, of each half a dram, Saffron a scruple, the leaves of gold and silver, of each ten, make them into powder according to art. *Culpeper.*] It is a great cordial, a great strengthener of the heart, and brain. #### *Diacalaminthe S..."
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Preparationalias: cloveshigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...rosemary, two cubic centimeters (2 Cc.) [32111]; cassia cinnamon, in coarse powder, twenty grammes (20 Gm.) [309 grs.]; cloves, five grammes (5 Gm.) [77 grs.]; nutmeg, ten grammes (10 Gm.) [154 grs. J; red saunders, in coarse pow^ier, ten grammes (10 Gm.) [154 gr.«.]; alcohol, seven hundred cubic centimeters (700 Cc.) [23 fig, 321 HI]; water, two hundred and fifty cubic centimeters (250 Cc.) [8 fig, 218 111]; diluted alcohol, a sufficient quantity to make one thousand cubic centimeters (1000 Cc.) [33 fig, 391 TTl]. Dissolve the oils in the alcohol, and add the..."
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The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"...rdial and strengthener; the latter is sufficiently known as a purge. Laudanum is made of two ounces of opium, a dram of cloves, and a dram of cinnamon, and a pint of wine. Viper wine is made of two ounces of dried vipers, and two quarts of white wine; and the tincture of ipecacuanha for a vomit, of two ounces of that root, half an ounce of dry orange peel, and a quart of sack. Lastly, what is called elixir proprietatis is made of aloes, myrrh, and saffron, of each an ounce, sal armoniac six drams, and salt of tartar eight ounces, in a quart of mountain wine. T..."
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Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533
"...ed coral, and make them up with the brain of sparrows and the blood of pigeons. For Mercury, take mastic, frankincense, cloves, and the herb cinque-foil, and the stone achate, and incorporate them all with the brain of a fox or weasel, and the blood of a magpie. Besides, to Saturn are appropriated for fumes all odoriferous roots, as pepper-wort root, etc., and the frankincense tree; to Jupiter, odoriferous fruits, as nutmegs and cloves; to Mars, all odoriferous wood, as Sanders, cypress, lignum balsam and lignum aloes; to the Sun, all gums, frankincense, masti..."
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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1906
"... seek to fertilise the trees precisely as they would impregnate women, while at the same time they call out for “More cloves!†This is supposed to make the trees bear fruit more abundantly. [358] In Java when a palm tree is to be tapped for wine, the man who proposes to relieve the tree of its superfluous juices deems it necessary to approach the palm in the character of a lover and a husband, as well as of a son. When he comes upon a palm which he thinks suitable, he will not begin cutting at the trunk until he has intimated as delicately as he can the re..."
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Folk magicalias: cloveshigh confidence
Books Mentioning Clove
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
clovesclove
112 mentionscited
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
clovesclove
58 mentionscited
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
clovesclove
14 mentionscited
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
cloves
12 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
clovesclove
8 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
clovesclove
7 mentions
Encyclopaedia of Antiquities
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke | 1825
cloves
6 mentions
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
cloves
4 mentionscited
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
cloves
4 mentions
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
cloves
4 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
clovesclove
3 mentions
The Magus (Vol 1)
Francis Barrett | 1801
cloves
3 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1913
cloves
3 mentions
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 3)
F. Max Müller | 1870
clove
3 mentions
Bulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch | 1881
clove
3 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
cloves
2 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
cloves
2 mentions
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot | 1584
cloves
2 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
cloves
2 mentions
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
cloves
2 mentions
Witch Stories
E. Lynn Linton | 1861
cloves
2 mentions
The Influence of the Stars
Rosa Baughan | 1880
cloves
2 mentions
Christian Astrology
William Lilly | 1647
cloves
2 mentions
Metamorphoses (Books VIII-XV)
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) | 8
clove
2 mentions
A Book of Myths
Andrew Lang | 1889
clove
2 mentions
Isis Unveiled Vol. 1
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1877
clove
2 mentions
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2: Anthropogenesis
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1888
clove
2 mentions
The Elder Eddas and Younger Eddas
Anonymous | 1200
clove
2 mentions
Tradition and Mythology
Lord Arundell of Wardour (John Francis Arundell) | 1872
clove
2 mentions
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
cloves
2 mentions
The Hermetic Museum
A. E. Waite (Translator/Editor) | 1678
cloves
2 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1917
cloves
2 mentions
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous | 1930
cloves
2 mentions
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
cloves
1 mention
Manual of Astrology
Raphael (Robert Cross Smith) | 1828
cloves
1 mention
The Authentic Red Dragon and Black Hen
Anonymous | 1800
cloves
1 mention
Transcendental Magic
Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant) | 1856
clove
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 10
Aleister Crowley | 1913
clove
1 mention
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception
Max Heindel | 1909
cloves
1 mention
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1916
cloves
1 mention
Young Folks' Treasury Vol. 2
Hamilton Wright Mabie (ed.) | 1909
clove
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 5
Aleister Crowley | 1911
cloves
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 2
Aleister Crowley | 1909
clove
1 mention