Agrimony

The Agrimony is a Simple well known to all country folk, and abundant throughout England in the fields and woods, as a popular domestic medicinal herb.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

“Agrimony for mental torture behind a carefree mask, chesnut for failure to learn from mistakes, impatiens for frustration, mustard for gloom, scleranthus for mood swings, white chestnut for mental arguments, wild oat for uncertainty.”

Mates, Dates: Besties: Cathy Hopkins 2002

Chemists have determined that the Agrimony possesses

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The _Hemp Agrimony_, or St. John's Herb, belongs to the Composite order of plants, and grows on the margins of brooks, having hemp-like leaves, which are bitter of taste and pungent of smell, as if it were an umbelliferous herb.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Agrimony grows with us in moist, shady places, with a tall reddish stem, and with terminal crowded heads of dull lilac flowers.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Agrimony was at one time included in the London _Materia Medica_ as a vulnerary herb.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

France, Agrimony tea is drank as a beverage at table.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Agrimony, mint, and marjoram, with a tall inula, and the pretty, sweet-scented white melilot, were in great abundance along the bank.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

Each little fruit of some kinds of Avens has a hook at the apex, while in Agrimony many hooks grow on the outside of the calyx and aid in carrying the two or three seeds within.

Seed Dispersal 1878

Ladies, the snowy stars of the Stitchwort, Succory, Yarrow, and several kinds of Violets; while all along the banks of streams are the tall red spikes of the Loosestrife, the Hemp Agrimony, Water Groundsel, Sedges,

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873