Preparation
highCulpeper includes lovage seed in a large aromatic decoction whose ingredients are infused for twenty-four hours and then boiled down.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Lovage
Levisticum officinale
Lovage 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
- 5
- Contexts
- 3
- Mentions
- 51
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- lovage
- Latin name
- Levisticum officinale(candidate)
Safety
moderate
Pregnancy, kidney, photosensitivity, and Apiaceae allergy cautions may be relevant.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- EMA HMPC: Pregnancy, kidney, photosensitivity, and Apiaceae allergy cautions may be relevant.
Aliases
lovageLevisticum officinale
Lovage in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Lovage (Levisticum officinale) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, preparations, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Medicine
highHill identifies lovage as a garden-kept umbellifer used in medicine, with large divided leaves, yellow flowers, striated seed, and a thick hollow stalk.
Astrology
mediumSibly places lovage in a long solar herb-and-plant list with angelica, balm, St. John's wort, marigold, mistletoe, rosemary, saffron, mace, and nutmeg.
Preparations and ritual uses
compound decoction
highCulpeper's lovage seed is infused with many roots and aromatics for twenty-four hours, boiled down, strained, and finished as a compound decoction.
Lovage Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as lovage; high confidence.
Astrology
2 passages across 1 book; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as lovage; high confidence.
Preparation
10 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as lovage; high confidence.
Lovage Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...paragus, Bruscus, Saxifrage, Elecampane, Cypress, Madder, Orris, Peony, of each an ounce, Juniper Berries, the seeds of Lovage, Parsley, Smallage, Annis, Nigella, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Costus, Cassia Lignea, Cardamoms, Calamus Aromaticus, the roots of Asarabacca, Pellitory of Spain, Valerian, of each half an ounce, being cleansed, cut, and bruised, let them be infused twenty-four hours in fourteen pounds of clear water, and boiled till half be consumed, being taken off from the fire, and rubbed between your hands whilst it is warm, strain it, and with honey..."
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Preparationalias: lovagehigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...llow 12a5 zinc, compound 1208 Lotiones 1205 Lotions 1205 Loturbark 18.56 Loturidine 18;")6 Loturine 18.56 Lousewort 929 Lovage, water 14.55 Low blackberry 16,81 Low-bush blackberry 1681 Lozenge, catechu 2005 chlorate of potash 2008 ipecacuanha 2006 morphine and ipecacuanlha 2008 opium 2006 Wistar's cough 2006 Lozenges 2003 morphine 2007 santonin 2009 soda bicarbonate 2009 sulphur 2010 Lucuma (ilycyphUoa 1275 mammnsa 913, 1103 salicifolia 1276 Luffa n>gy ptiaca 1828 f(etida 1828 Petala 1828 Lump-lac 1111 Lungmoss 1835 Lungwort, lichen 18.3.5 oak 1835 tree 18.3...."
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Preparationalias: lovagehigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"...nt and balsamic. The young leaves bound about a fresh wound, stop the bleeding, and perform a cure in a short time. ### LOVAGE. *Levisticum.* A TALL plant of the umbelliferous kind, kept in our gardens for its use in medicine. The stalk is round, thick, hollow, and deeply striated or channelled. The leaves are very large, and they are each composed of a number of smaller; these are set on a divided stalk, and are short, broad, and indented at the edges. The flowers are small and yellow, the seed is striated, the root is brown, thick, and divided, and the fibre..."
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Medicinealias: lovagehigh confidence
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
1621
"... the heat of the liver doth not forbid ; cold where the heat of the liver is very great. Amongst hot are Parsley roots, Lovage. Fennel, &c. cold. Melon-seeds, &c., with whey of Goat’s-milk, which is the common conveyer. To purge and purify the blood use Sowthistle, Succory, Senna, Endive, Carduus Benedictus, Dandelion, Hop, Maidenhair, Fumitory , Bugloss, Borage, &c., with their juice, decoctions, distilled waters, syrups, &c. Oswaldus Crollius much admires salt of Corals in this case, and Aetius, Hieram Archigenis [Aichigenes’ Medicine], which is an excellent..."
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Preparationalias: lovagehigh confidence
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly
1784
"...evil. In conception, he presides over the fourth month. *Herbs and Plants.*—Angelica, avens, ash-tree, balm, one-blade, lovage, burnet, butter-bur, camomile, celandine, centaury, eyebright, fig-tree, St. John's wort, marigolds, mistletoe, piony, Peter's wort, pimpernel, raisins, rosa solis, rosemary, rue, saffron, tormentil, turnsole, vipers-bugloss, walnut-tree, cloves, mace, nutmegs, scabious, sorrel, wood-sorrel, borage, No. 6. D d gentian,"
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Archive mentionalias: lovagemedium confidence
Books Mentioning Lovage
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
lovage
42 mentionscited
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
lovage
4 mentionscited
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
lovage
3 mentionscited
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
lovage
1 mentioncited
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
lovage
1 mentioncited