Preparation
highHill gives lavender flowers as a head-and-nerves remedy and describes spirit of lavender, or palsy drops, distilled from lavender flowers and rosemary tops.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
Lavender 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
- low concern
- Books
- 18
- Contexts
- 5
- Mentions
- 139
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- lavender
- Latin name
- Lavandula angustifolia(candidate)
- Identity note
- Sea-lavender and ornamental references are separate from medicinal lavender material.
Safety
low concern
Generally low concern in ordinary use; concentrated oil and oral preparations need caution.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- NCCIH Herbs at a Glance: Generally low concern in ordinary use; concentrated oil and oral preparations need caution.
Aliases
lavenderLavandula angustifolialavender water
Lavender in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, ritual uses, and symbolism. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Ritual
highThe Key of Solomon uses lavender in a Mercury-timed sprinkler bundled with vervain, fennel, sage, valerian, mint, basil, rosemary, and hyssop.
Symbolism
highLiber 777 uses lavender as a color term in the Daath color-scale notes, so this archive hit is occult color symbolism rather than plant use.
Preparations and ritual uses
ritual sprinkler
highThe Key of Solomon binds lavender into a Mercury-hour sprinkler with vervain, fennel, sage, valerian, mint, basil, rosemary, and hyssop.
Lavender Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Human Aura.
Matched as lavender; high confidence.
Astrology
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Clavis Astrologiae Elimata.
Matched as lavender; high confidence.
Folk magic
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Liber 777.
Matched as lavender; high confidence.
Preparation
10 passages across 10 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.
Matched as lavender; high confidence.
Ritual
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Domestic Folk-lore.
Matched as lavender; high confidence.
Lavender Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...tory, Broom, Cowslips, St. John’s Wort, Hysop, Jessamine or Shrub, Trefoil, Archangel, or Dead Nettles white and red, Lavender, Wall-flowers, or Winter-Gilliflowers, Privet, Lilies white, and of the valley, Hops, Common and tree Mallows, Feather-few, Woodbine, or Honeysuckles, Melilot, Bawm, Walnuts, Water-Lilies white and yellow, Origanum, Poppies white and red, or Erraticks, Poppies, or corn Roses, so called because they grow amongst Corn, Peony, Honeysuckles, or Woodbine, Peach-flowers, Primroses, Self-heal, Sloe bush, Rosemary flowers, Roses, white, damask..."
A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES IN THE NEW DISPENSATORY.Open in Reader
Preparationalias: lavenderhigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...ler, ten grammes (10 Gm.; [154 grs.] ; potatrsium bicarbonate, twenty grammes (20 Gm.) [309 grs.]; compound tincture of lavender, thirty cubic centimeters (30 Cc.) [487111]; dis^tilled water, a sufficient quantity to make one tiiousand cubic centimeters (1000 Ce.) [33 flg, 391 Til]. Boil the arsenous acid and potassium bicarbonate with one hundred cubic centimeters (100 Cc.) [3 flg, 183111] of distilled water until solution has been effected. Then add enough distilled water to make the solution, when cold, measure nine hundred and seventy cubic centimeters (970 ..."
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Preparationalias: lavenderhigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"... they are good against all disorders of the head and nerves. They may be taken in the form of tea. The famous spirit of lavender called palsy drops, and the sweet lavender water are made with them. The spirit of lavender called palsy drops is thus made best. Put into a small still a pound of lavender flowers, and five ounces of the tender tops of rosemary, put to them five quarts of common melasses spirit, and a quart of water: distil off three quarts; put to this cinnamon and nutmegs, of each three quarters of an ounce, red sanders wood half an ounce; let these..."
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Key of Solomon
King Solomon
1400
"...say the following Psalms : cii. ; liv. ; vi. ; lxvii. Thou shalt then make unto thyself a Sprinkler of vervain, fennel, lavender, sage, valerian, mint, garden-basil, rosemary, and hyssop, gathered in the day and hour of Mercury, the moon being in her increase. Bind together these herbs with a thread spun by a young maiden, and engrave upon the handle on the one side the characters shown in Figure 82, and on the other side those given in Figure 83. After this thou mayest use the Water, using the Sprinkler whenever it is necessary; and know that wheresoever thou s..."
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Preparationalias: lavenderhigh confidence
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley
1909
"...duce 19 to 10, join 7-10, 8-10. Daath is at the junction of 25, 34. See figure, p. xxvii. ##### COLS. XV.-XVIII.— Daath—Lavender, Grey-white, Pure violet, Grey-flecked gold. Herschel—Silver-flecked white. Col. XVI., Line 10.—For △, ▽, △, and ▽. Col. XIX.—Urim and Thummim = Auramoth and Thoum Mou, Egyptian Gods. They are methods of divination by △ and ▽. Col. XX., LINE 32.—These Gods preside over the pieces in "Rosicrucian Chess." | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | A of △ | Bishop | Θωουμ μωου | | ▽ of △ | Queen | Ισχαορρεθ | | △ of △ | Knight | Θηωου φωηψ | | ▽ of △ ..."
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Folk magicalias: lavenderhigh confidence
Books Mentioning Lavender
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
lavender
49 mentionscited
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
lavender
40 mentionscited
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
lavender
15 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
lavenderlavender water
9 mentionscited
Human Animals
Frank Hamel | 1915
lavender
4 mentions
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
lavender
4 mentions
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
lavender
2 mentionscited
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
lavender
2 mentions
Domestic Folk-lore
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer | 1881
lavender
2 mentions
The Human Aura
Swami Panchadasi | 1912
lavender
2 mentions
Jungle Ways
William Seabrook | 1930
lavender
2 mentions
Book of the Damned
Charles Fort | 1919
lavender
2 mentions
Key of Solomon
King Solomon | 1400
lavender
1 mentioncited
Manual of Astrology
Raphael (Robert Cross Smith) | 1828
lavender
1 mention
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay | 1841
lavender
1 mention
Genethlialogia
John Gadbury | 1658
lavender
1 mention
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
lavender
1 mention
The Coming of the Fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle | 1922
lavender
1 mention