>>Meets the Eye?

MUCH more than meets the Eye.  I wasn't 100% sure I correctly remembered the name - SO - looked up whay I thought I remembered.  Seems I was right. 
"Lysimachia is a genus consisting of 193 accepted species of flowering plants traditionally classified in the family Primulaceae." 
- BUT - HUGE gaps in the knowledge.  I'd met "Purple Loosestrife" but was unaware this is known, among other names, as  Yellow Loosestrife, or there was any medicinal use.
"Yellow loosestrife has similar medicinal properties and uses as moneywort ( Lysimachia nummularia ). It has astringent (contracting), expectorant and emollient properties and it is used primarily as a treatment for ailments related to the digestive system, such as diarrhea and dysentery."


or that the historians can't make up their minds


1. "Genus name honours King Lysimachus (661-281 B.C.), Macedonian King of Thrace and is derived from lysimacheios which was the ancient Greek name of a plant in this grouping."
2. "Lysimachia ( Greek: Λυσιμάχεια) was an important Hellenistic Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese (the modern Gallipoli peninsula)~ ~ "
3. Obviously American "we" don't 'ave 'Erbal Doctors.
"According to myth, the medicinal properties of yellow loosestrife were first discovered by a man named Lysimakhos. No one knows who he was and what role he played in history is uncertain but in ancient literature, he is referred to as an herbal doctor, king of Sicily or general in the army of Alexander the Great."