When the ravages of Alzheimer’s leave an elderly woman marooned in painful memories of October 1950, her grandchild comes up with a creative strategy.
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Culpeper’s Medicine Garden
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IN A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin’s great novel, magic is words, and words are power.
Knowing the true name of something is to understand and control it — and true wizards use this knowledge, sparingly, for good, and to maintain balance.
Nicholas Culpeper, was a 17th century herbalist, botanist, and radical. As we learn, he wished to democratise medicine, and the knowledge of healing herbs and plants, which had become obscured by the Latin used by expensive physicians, surgeons and priests.
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