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Cloves and blessed avens

Garyophillorum; Garyophyllorum; garyophyllorum; Benedictae Garyophyllatae; Benedictae; garyophylli; benedicta garyophyllata

The beer paragraph names oil of cloves and then prefers oil of blessed avens.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

The beer paragraph names oil of cloves and then prefers oil of blessed avens. Similar-looking historical words do not make these one plant: the edition explicitly distinguishes avens from cloves. The shorter Benedictae in the following sentence refers back to the avens name. Retaining both the printed spelling variants and the English distinctions prevents the recipe-like comparison from losing its stated preference between two different preparations.

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  1. Book 3 · Preservation · Passage 16Latin“oleum Benedictae Garyophyllatae”