mandragore

Updated: May 2, 2025

The mandrake, as a mystic plant, was extensively sold for medicinal purposes, and in Kent may be occasionally found kept to cure barrenness; and it may be remembered that La Fontaine's fable, La Mandragore, turns upon its supposed power of producing children.

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants

Also take lilywater, four ounces; mandragore water, one ounce; saffron, half a scruple; beat the saffron to a powder, and mix it with waters, drink them warm in the morning; use these eight days together. Some apparent Remedy against Barrenness and to cause Fruitfulness.

Aristotle - The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher : Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy