The Voynich Botanical Plants
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Folio 31v. Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare). The bulb, seeds and leaves of this plant were used to flavor many culinary dishes “Medieval herbalists state that fennel seed comforteth the stomach. Also if it be drunk with wine it will break the dropsy and all manner of swellings. It was good for mistiness of the eyes and worms in the ears, It makes a woman’s milk to increase.” (2) (A)
(2) Freeman, M., Herbs, for the Medieval Household, The Grete Herball
(A) Drawings that are probably copies of illustrations found in other herbals