Alchemilla
A bunch of Lady's Mantle snatched from the garden as I arrived home from a nice dinner in Edinburgh, excellent spaghetti con vongole.
Taken just before midnight - there were better images but they were past the witching hour.
Apparently this self seeding nuisance (it only looks nice while it is flowering and covering the garden in its yellow froth) is a useful medicinal herb. I have enough to go into mass production.
Culpepper says of it:
'Lady's Mantle is very proper for inflamed wounds and to stay bleeding, vomitings, fluxes of all sorts, bruises by falls and ruptures. It is one of the most singular wound herbs and therefore highly prized and praised, used in all wounds inward and outward, to drink a decoction thereof and wash the wounds therewith, or dip tents therein and put them into the wounds which wonderfully drieth up all humidity of the sores and abateth all inflammations thereof. It quickly healeth green wounds, not suffering any corruption to remain behind and cureth old sores, though fistulous and hollow
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