Hildegard's Healing Plants

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Hildegard’s ealing l ants

 If a man eats houseleek who was healthy in his genital nature, he would be on fire with desire. semen in his old age, let him put houseleek in goat’s milk for a long time until it is steeped completely with that milk. Then cook it in the same milk, with some eggs also added, so that it is able to be nourishing. Then let him eat it for either three or five days, and the strength of his semen will return for begetting and will flourish for offspring. But this food, prepared in this way, is not strong against female sterility; if a woman eats

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