Hyacinth walk
My umpteenth #coronawalk , walking within a radius of 1000 meters, will be a bluebell walk. Slopes full of wild forest hyacinths. Blue consolation in gloomy times. Watching bluebells and smelling them, eating them I wouldn't do for the sake of toxicity. Although you can find them in very old herbal books of a.o.. Dioscorides and Dodoens described.
Dodonaeus sounds like that. ' The root of the hyacinths is drying in the first degree and cooling in the last of the second degree, yes to the beginning of the third and the seed is rather wiping and migrating together and dries almost to the third degree, but otherwise moderately in heating and cooling, as Galenus expresses.
The root of the hyacinth, says Dioscorides, mixes with white wine and laid on the sex of young children prevents them from getting rough or getting hair to their bodies (hormonal action? ) , the same root stops the chamber passage and hardens the belly, ingested with drink lets urinate and helps those who have been stabbed or bitten from the Phalangium or poisonous spiders.
The seed is very good to heal those who are hurt from the snakes and drunk with wine it heals and purifies the jaundice people'.
The wild hyacinth was used to be called “snotnail”, because of the mucus it releases when the leaves are bruised and the dirt that the bulb leaves on the hands.
