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Fig

Ficus carica

Fig 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: 86
Contexts: 4
Mentions: 565

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Archive Profile

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

Herb identity

Common name: fig
Latin name: Ficus carica(candidate)
Identity note: Fig is frequent in biblical, symbolic, and medical archive material.

Safety

moderate

Food use is common; fig latex and medicinal preparations can irritate or photosensitize.

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

Kew POWO: Food use is common; fig latex and medicinal preparations can irritate or photosensitize.

Aliases

figFicus caricafig treefigs

Fig in Historical Sources

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

Hermetikon's curated reading of Fig (Ficus carica) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Preparation

high

Culpeper includes fat figs in a lung electuary with pine nuts, bitter almonds, raisins, dates, spices, styrax, sugar, and clarified honey.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 59

Astrology

high

Agrippa groups figs with sweet pears and pomegranates among Venusian fruits, connecting fig symbolism with love, sweetness, and pleasure.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533

Page 114

Astrology

high

The Fourth Book tradition also has Venus signify grapes, figs, and dates, giving fig a repeated planetary association in astrological question material.

Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy | Pseudo-Agrippa | 1565

Page 178

Preparations and ritual uses

Lung electuary

high

Culpeper's electuary uses fat figs with raisins, dates, nuts, starches, spices, styrax, sugar, and honey for cold lung infirmities.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 59

Fig Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Astrology

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: Fourth Book & Magical Treatises.

Matched as figs; high confidence.

Folk magic

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.

Matched as figs; high confidence.

Preparation

5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Matched as figs; high confidence.

Ritual

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Golden Bough.

Matched as figs; high confidence.

Fig Cited Excerpts

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

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Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...each six drams, Tragacanth, white Starch, bitter Almonds, Pine-nuts, Cinnamon, Ginger, Pepper, of each three drams, fat Figs, the pulp of Raisins of the Sun, and Dates, of each three drams and an half, Styrax, Calamitis two drams and an half, Sugar dissolved in Hyssop water, and clarified Honey, of each twice the weight of all the rest, make them into an electuary according to art. *Culpeper.*] The electuary is chiefly appropriated to the lungs, and helps cold infirmities of them, as asthmaes, coughs, difficulty of breathing, &c. You may take it with a Liquo..."

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Preparationalias: figshigh confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"...e fruits of the first two species constitute an article of food in their native countries, being employed like raisins, figs, etc. Preparation. — Jujube Paste. Masm de jujulm. With sufficient water extract juiulii'-licrries, 5 parts, to obtain of the infusion, 35 parts; add sugar, 20 parts; acacia. .'^(J jiarts. Evaporate, add orange-flower water, 2 parts; boil slowly ibr 12 Imurs, and run into molds. This is in accordance with the French Codex. Jujube pa^tf (ill the Cnitcil States), seldom contains jujube. Action and Medical Uses.— Jujube decoction is emplo..."

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Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy

Pseudo-Agrippa

1565

"... that are: affimulated umtoigold , Hotfes and birds, fuch as hawks and falcons» Venus doth fienifie farnefy and grapes, figs and dares, fifh and paitimes, Mere wry hath barley, millet, graitymoney, and quickfilver, The (Moon tignifies oats, miik, cheele, fire and falt,cows, rams, hens,and filvery and accordingly plenry and fvarcityiof them, Queftions of the fifth Honfe. LF. you;would know, whetheral woman be wich Child 3°68 oWhether {het wail -haverary, chitdrén; ornoty otk if the Lord.of. the Aicendent beanithe feventh; orthe Lord ofthe ftth in the firft, o..."

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Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

1533

"...r-gris, sanders or red sandal-wood, coriander, and all sweet perfumes; and delightful and sweet fruits, as sweet pears, figs, pomegranates, which, the poets say, were, in Cyprus, first sown by Venus. Also the Rose of Lucifer was dedicated to her; also the Myrtle-tree of Hesperus. Moreover, all luxurious, delicious animals, and of a strong love, as dogs, conies, odorous sheep and goats, both female and male, which generate sooner than any other animal; also the bull, for his disdain, and the calf, for his wantonness. Amongst birds, the swan, the wagtail, the ..."

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Fourth Book & Magical Treatises

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (attributed)

1655

"... that are affimulated unto gold, horfes and birds, fuch as hawks and falcons. *Venus* doth fignifie fatnefs and grapes, figs and dates, fifh and paltimes. *Mercury* hath barley, millet, grain, money, and quickfilver. The *Moon* fignifies oats, milk, cheefe, fire and falt, cows, rams, hens, and filver, and accordingly plenty and scarcity of them. ### *Questions of the fifth Houfe.* IF you would know whether a woman be with Child, or whether fhe will have any children, or not, look if the Lord of the Afcedent be in the feventh, or the Lord of the fifth in the ..."

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Books Mentioning Fig

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

86 books

Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy

Grillot de Givry | 1929

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Fig in Historical Sources

Preparation

Astrology

Astrology

Preparations and ritual uses

Lung electuary

Fig Archive Contexts

Astrology

Folk magic

Preparation

Ritual

Fig Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Fourth Book & Magical Treatises

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