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Hyacinth

Hyacinthus orientalis

Hyacinth 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: 42
Contexts: 4
Mentions: 114

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

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

Herb identity

Common name: hyacinth
Latin name: Hyacinthus orientalis(ambiguous)
Identity note: Hyacinth may be a flower, mythological figure, or gemstone color/name in archive text.

Safety

high

Hyacinth bulbs can be toxic and irritating; do not treat archive references as use guidance.

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

MedlinePlus: Hyacinth bulbs can be toxic and irritating; do not treat archive references as use guidance.

Aliases

hyacinthHyacinthus orientalis

Hyacinth in Historical Sources

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

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

Identity

medium

Hill's hyacinth evidence identifies the plant under the historical name jacinth or Hyacinthus vulgaris, but the fragmentary excerpt reads more as identity evidence than as a remedy.

The Family Herbal | John Hill | 1755

Page 228

Preparation

medium

King's treats hyacinth as a heat-sensitive perfumery odor whose aroma is obtained by maceration or absorption into fats rather than ordinary water distillation.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 435

Symbolism

medium

Crowley glosses jacinth as Hyacinth, the beautiful youth killed by Apollo, and calls the resulting attribution far-fetched, making the entry mythic-gem symbolism rather than herbal medicine.

Liber 777 | Aleister Crowley | 1909

Page 198

Preparations and ritual uses

perfumery maceration

medium

King's says hyacinth aroma is obtained by maceration or absorption into fats because the odoriferous principle is sensitive to heat.

King's American Dispensatory | Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

Page 435

Hyacinth Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Medicine

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Picatrix.

Matched as hyacinth; medium confidence.

Astrology

6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: Astrology for All.

Matched as hyacinth; medium confidence.

Preparation

5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Bulfinch's Mythology.

Matched as hyacinth; medium confidence.

Safety

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Bulfinch's Mythology.

Matched as hyacinth; medium confidence.

Hyacinth Cited Excerpts

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

5 shown

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"...ontaining the oil. Certain oil.-.- used in perfumery, which are sensitive to heat, e. g., the odoriferous principles of hyacinth, jasmine, etc., are obtained by maceration, especially by abstracting tiuaroma by means of liquid fats orsemisolid paraffins (('/(rf/c/o;// ). Again, synthetic oils, such as artificial methyl salicylate, are obtained by laboratory processes which are briefly described under" tlieir respective headings. All other oils are obtained by distillation with the vapors of boiling water. Directions for the pharmaceutical preparation of essentia..."

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Preparationalias: hyacinthmedium confidence

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence

1920

"... to secure all the virtues in his favour, wore an amulet composed of a sunbaked toad, arsenic, tormentil, pearl, coral, hyacinth, smarag, and tragacanth." It in also said that to dream of pearls means many tears. Their occult virtues are brought forth by being boiled in meat,, when they heal the quartan ague : bruised and taken with milk, they are good for ulcers, and clear the voice. They also comfort the heart and render their possessor chaste. Pedro 4e Valentia : (See Spain.) Peliades : (See Greece.) Pentagram : (See Magical Diagram.) Perfect Sermon: A hermet..."

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Preparationalias: hyacinthmedium confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"...boiled into a syrup with honey, is good to break tough phlegm, and to cure coughs and hoarsenesses. ### THE JACINTH, OR HYACINTH. *Hyacinthus vulgaris.* THE common spring plant our children gather with their cowslips and May flowers, and call blue"

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Preparationalias: hyacinthmedium confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1890

"...f their spirit? â€œ*I sometimes think that never blows so red* *The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;* *That every Hyacinth the Garden wears* *Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.* â€œ*And this reviving Herb whose tender Green* *Fledges the River-Lip on which we leanâ€”* *Ah, lean upon it lightly, for who knows* *From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen?*â€ In the summer after the battle of Landen, the most sanguinary battle of the seventeenth century in Europe, the earth, saturated with the blood of twenty thousand slain, broke forth into milli..."

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Medicinealias: hyacinthmedium confidence

Liber 777

Aleister Crowley

1909

"...stone suggests Scorpio directly. Greenish Tur- quoise is attributed here as referring to its putrefaction. - Jacinth is Hyacinth, the beautiful boy accidentally killed by Apollo with a quoit, the attribution is there- fore somewhat far-fetched—from the blood of the boy to the traditional weapons of his lover. - For Black Diamond see line 0 and 32-bis. The reference is to the letter A'ain, the eye. The Black Diamond reminds us of the pupil of the eye, and this eye is the eye of the Most Holy Ancient One; Kether. Capricorn is the zenith of the Zodiac as Kether is ..."

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Astrologyalias: hyacinthmedium confidence

Books Mentioning Hyacinth

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

42 books

Bulfinch's Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch | 1881

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Hyacinth in Historical Sources

Identity

Preparation

Symbolism

Preparations and ritual uses

perfumery maceration

Hyacinth Archive Contexts

Medicine

Astrology

Preparation

Safety

Hyacinth Cited Excerpts

King's American Dispensatory

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

The Family Herbal

The Golden Bough

Liber 777

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