Edith Sherwood Ph.D.

The Voynich Botanical Plants

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Folio 13v. Honeysuckles / Woodbines (Lonicera periclymenum), The small Italian honeysuckle of Mid and Southern Europe is used as a skin tonic, and the seeds as a diuretic. Dioscorides wrote that a syrup made from the flowers is “good to be drunk against diseases of the lungs and spleen.” (1) (C)

(1) Wikipedia
(C) Plants drawn from nature