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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The source expressly pairs scrophularia with chelidonium minus and explains the name through a claimed power to heal haemorrhoids, mariscae. This particular pairing should not be replaced with a modern botanical identification merely because one name now suggests another plant. The edition preserves the historical association and its therapeutic claim without endorsing the treatment.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 61Latin“scrophularia (chelidonium minus)”