John Gerard

 



The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes
John Gerard, Norton, John, 1597 https://books.google.com/books


Pg 572





Description of the plant
Male (Female)


Hemp has a straight hollow stalk
4 to 5 feet high
Full of branches when it grows wild, when it is sown in fields it has hardly any branches at all
Rank smell with leaves made up of many little leaves joined together
The seed is round and full of a white substance

Female (Male)

Looks the same as the other plant, but barren and without seed. It has to be harvested before the other plant or otherwise it will wither away and come to no good purpose.

Cannabis, Zammer Banff, Canape, Canamo, Chanure, Kemp, Hempe.

Males (female) Charle Hempe or Winter hempe, Female (male) Barren hempe or Sommer Hempe

References Columella, Galen, Dioscorides, Mattioli

Columella states hemp (cannabis sativa) grows best in fat dunged and watery soil, or plain and moist, but deeply worked.

Columella (4 - 70 AD) a prominent Roman writer on agriculture. 


March and April for planting. Harvest female (males) in July, and male (female) at the end of August. 


Medical - 

Temperature and virtues


Dioscorides (40 - 90)

Which states the juice from the leaves helps with pain, and helps with obstructions and stoppings.

The inner substance or pulp of the seed (flower) in liquor, is given to those with yellow jaundice, and also helps with obstructions and gall. I help with cholera through the entire body.

(This I believe is a mis interpretation of what Dioscorides actually used, also they combined wild and farmed hemp into one, one of which was mallow.)


Galen (129 – 216) book of simple medicines 

States it is hard on digestion, hurtful to the stomach and head and contains an ill juice. But people still use it to eat for junkets…. 

It consumes the wind, great drier, it drieth up the seed if too much is consumed.


Mattioli (1501 - 1577)

Seed feed to chickens makes better eggs..


One thing to note they did not separate Cannabis Sativa into separate plants; it was all one.

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