Preparation
highKing's gives a compound mustard liniment built around volatile oil of mustard with mezereon, camphor, castor oil, alcohol, and ammonia-water ingredients.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Mustard
Sinapis alba
Mustard 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
- 65
- Contexts
- 5
- Mentions
- 359
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- mustard
- Latin name
- Sinapis alba(ambiguous)
- Identity note
- Archive references include seed, condiment, biblical parable, and medical rubefacient uses.
Safety
moderate
Mustard plasters and medicinal preparations can irritate skin and mucosa; food use is distinct.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- Kew POWO: Mustard plasters and medicinal preparations can irritate skin and mucosa; food use is distinct.
Aliases
mustardBrassica nigramustard seedSinapis alba
Mustard in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Mustard (Sinapis alba) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, folk magic, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Astrology
highAgrippa assigns mustard seed to Mars by grouping it with tear-causing alliums and other offensive or martial things.
Folk magic
highFrazer records Azorean Midsummer lore that the devil can be seen at midnight in a garden, standing near a mustard plant, alongside other divinations.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1913
§ 4. The Midsummer Fires.
Preparations and ritual uses
compound liniment
highKing's compound mustard liniment combines volatile mustard oil with mezereon, camphor, castor oil, alcohol, and ammonia-water materials.
Mustard Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Astrology
5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.
Matched as mustard; high confidence.
Folk magic
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as mustard; high confidence.
Preparation
5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: King's American Dispensatory.
Matched as mustard; high confidence.
Symbolism
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Golden Bough.
Matched as mustard; high confidence.
Safety
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.
Matched as mustard; high confidence.
Mustard Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"... | Moon-wort | Field Mouse Ear | | Yellow Money-wort | Black Mullein | Mother-wort | | Mug-wort | White Mullein | White Mustard | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Black Mustard | Common Nightshade | Deadly Nightshade | | Nep | Nailwort | Orpine | | Cow Parsnip | Rock Parsley | Wild Parsnip | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Pellitory of the Wall | Periwinkle | Pepper-wort | | Pimpernel | Plantain | Polypody | | White Poppy | Corn Rose Poppy | Primrose | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Privet ..."
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Astrologyalias: mustardhigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...SUCCINI COMP. LINIMENTUM SINAPIS COMPOSITUM (U. S. P.)— COMPOUND LINIMENT OF MUSTAED. Preparation. — ■' Volatile oil of mustard, thirtj' cubic centimeters (30 Cc.) I3, 7 TTl] ; tluid extract of mezereuni, two hundred cubic centimeters (200 Cc.) [6 fig, 3661m.] ; camphor, sixty grammes (60 Gm.) [2 ozs. av., 51 grs.] ; castor oil, ^1 lis, 7 TTl] ; Huid extract of mezereuni, two hundred cubic centimeters (200 Cc.) ' \ Til]; camphor, sixty grammes (60 Gm.) [2 ozs. : " _ 1 one hundred and fifty cubic centimeters (150 Cc.) [5 fls, 35 TTl]; alcohol, a sufficient quant..."
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Preparationalias: mustardhigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"...e those of our shepherd's purse. The seed-vessels are small, and contain several seeds like those of the common treacle mustard. This is the appearance of the plant, as it grows very frequent in the warmer climates; and thus it has nothing singular in it, while in its perfection of growth, but after a time, the leaves decay and fall off, and the stalks as they dry, in the heat, draw up more and more, till by degrees they get into this round figure, from which, warm water will expand them, but they recover it again as they dry. This is the real history of that l..."
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Preparationalias: mustardhigh confidence
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533
"102 HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA'S and such as, being eaten, cause tears, as onions, ascolonia, leeks, mustard-seed, and all thorny trees; and the dogwood-tree, which is dedicated to Mars. And all such animals as are warlike, ravenous, bold, and of clear fancy, as the horse, mule, goat, kid, wolf, leopard, and wild ass. Serpents, also, and dragons, full of displeasure and poison. Also all such as are offensive to men, as gnats, flies, and the baboon, by reason of his anger. All birds that are ravenous, devour flesh, and break bones, as the eagl..."
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Astrologyalias: mustardhigh confidence
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1913
"...ve, too, you can always see the devil, if you will go into a garden at midnight. He is invariably found standing near a mustard-plant. His reason for adopting this posture has not been ascertained; perhaps in the chilly air of the upper world he is attracted by the genial warmth of the mustard. Various forms of divination are practised by people in the Azores on Midsummer Eve. Thus a new-laid egg is broken [pg 209] into a glass of water, and the shapes which it assumes foreshadow the fate of the person concerned. Again, seven saucers are placed in a row, filled..."
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Preparationalias: mustardhigh confidence
Books Mentioning Mustard
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
mustardmustard seed
63 mentionscited
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
mustardmustard seed
45 mentionscited
The Gospel of Buddha
Paul Carus | 1894
mustardmustard seed
20 mentions
The Nag Hammadi Library
Various Gnostic Authors (Ancient) | 1945
mustardmustard seed
12 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1916
mustardmustard seed
10 mentions
Philosophumena (Vol 1)
Hippolytus of Rome | 222
mustardmustard seed
10 mentions
Philosophumena (Vol 2)
Hippolytus of Rome | 222
mustardmustard seed
9 mentions
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
mustard
8 mentions
Young Folks' Treasury Vol. 2
Hamilton Wright Mabie (ed.) | 1909
mustardmustard seed
8 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1908
mustard
8 mentions
Meister Eckhart, Vol. 2
C. de B. Evans | 1931
mustardmustard seed
8 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
mustard
7 mentionscited
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot | 1584
mustardmustard seed
7 mentions
Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2: Theology
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1877
mustardmustard seed
6 mentions
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller | 1901
mustard seedmustard
6 mentions
Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses
Anonymous (Attributed to Moses) | 1800
mustardmustard seed
6 mentions
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
mustard
6 mentions
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 4)
F. Max Müller | 1875
mustard
5 mentions
Encyclopaedia of Occultism
Lewis Spence | 1920
mustard
4 mentions
Dhammapada
Buddhist tradition (compiled) | 200
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1918
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1917
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
G.R.S. Mead | 1900
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
Four Basic Principles of Numerology
Various Authors | 1920
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer (Institoris) | 1487
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
Occult Science in Medicine
Franz Hartmann | 1893
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
The Hermetic Museum
A. E. Waite (Translator/Editor) | 1678
mustardmustard seed
4 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1911
mustard
3 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1906
mustard
3 mentions
Strange Pages from Family Papers
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer | 1887
mustard
3 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 6
Aleister Crowley | 1911
mustardmustard seed
3 mentions
Guide for the Perplexed
Moses Maimonides | 1190
mustard
3 mentions
Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein
Herbert Mayo | 1851
mustard
3 mentions
Aurora
Jacob Boehme | 1612
mustard
3 mentions
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
mustard
2 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
mustard
2 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1907
mustard
2 mentions
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
mustard
2 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1913
mustard
2 mentions
Proofs of a Conspiracy
John Robison | 1797
mustard
2 mentions
Genethlialogia
John Gadbury | 1658
mustard
2 mentions
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
mustard
2 mentions
The Signature of All Things
Jacob Boehme | 1621
mustard
2 mentions
The Influence of the Stars
Rosa Baughan | 1880
mustard
2 mentions
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I
James George Frazer | 1913
mustard
2 mentions
Chuang Tzu
Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) | 300
mustard
2 mentions
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous | 1930
mustardmustard seed
2 mentions
Manual of Astrology
Raphael (Robert Cross Smith) | 1828
mustardmustard seed
2 mentions
Solomon and Solomonic Literature
Moncure Daniel Conway | 1898
mustard
2 mentions
Demonologia
J. S. Forsyth | 1827
mustard
2 mentions
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay | 1841
mustard
2 mentions
The Law of Psychic Phenomena
Thomson Jay Hudson | 1893
mustardmustard seed
2 mentions
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) | 1493
mustard
2 mentions
Psyche's Task
Sir James George Frazer | 1909
mustard
2 mentions
The Holy Kabbalah
Arthur Edward Waite | 1929
mustard
2 mentions
Thought Vibration
William Walker Atkinson | 1906
mustardmustard seed
2 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1926
mustardmustard seed
2 mentions
Bible Myths
Thomas William Doane | 1882
mustard
2 mentions
Encyclopaedia of Antiquities
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke | 1825
mustard
1 mention
Psychic Self-Defense
Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth) | 1930
mustard
1 mention
Indian Palmistry
J. B. Dale | 1895
mustard
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 1
Aleister Crowley | 1909
mustard
1 mention
Curiosities of Superstition
William Henry Davenport Adams | 1882
mustard
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 9
Aleister Crowley | 1913
mustard
1 mention