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Melancholia |
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Causes: |
in Melancholia, "few distorted ideas occur with the bulk of intellectual
functioning intact" (34) |
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Recipe:
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Feverfew is recommended for "such as be melancholike, sad, pensive and without speech". Or, "syrup made of the flowers of borage 'comforteth the heart, purgeth the melancholy' " However, the most common cure is by far Black Hellebore, or Christmas Rose, which also "purgeth all melancholy humors". (35) |
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