Olea, Olive tree

Picture Picture
Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491

 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578
Picture Wild and Domestic Olive
Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563

Picture Flora von Deutschland (16), Kohler, 1884

Picture Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen, Berg & Schmidt, Leipzig, 1893

Botanical name:


Olea europea

Parts used:


Fruit (pickled); Leaf; Expressed Oil

Temperature & Taste:


LEAF: Cool and dry, Bitter
OIL: Warm and Moist. Sweet

Classifications:


Olive Oil:
2E LENITIVE    2L. EMOLLIENT   2Q. ANODYNE   2U. SUPPURATIVES
3O. EMETICS

Uses:


FRUIT:
-Olives clear Heat and Inflammation of the Stomach
-Pickled Olives, eaten before food, promote Appetite, move the Belly, and are strengthening for a moist Belly

LEAF:
-cleanses Liver and Gall Bladder; Gall Stones
Externally:
-topically for Diarrhea, excess Menstruation
=Carbuncles, Herpes, Erysipelas, St. Anthony’s Fire, Eating Ulcers,
-all diseases of the mouth

EXPRESSED OIL (of Ripe Fruit):
-Loosens the Belly, corrects the dryness of the Bowels (often used in Enemas)
-Good for ‘dryness of the Breast’ (Chest)
-Promotes Urine, cleanses and heals the urinary passages,
-Often used in Enemas, and applied to Tumors, roughness and dryness etc.
-taken with Warm water, it promotes Vomiting

OIL OMPHACINE (oil pressed from unripe Fruit)
-it cools, dries and astringes.


Main Combinations:


1. Gall Bladder inflammation, Gall Stones:
i. Olive leaf, Celandine, Dandelion, Peppermint, Fennel seed
ii. Olive leaf, Agrimony, Turmeric, Fennel seed
2. All diseases of the Mouth, Gums and Throat, beat Olive leaves with Plantain Water, press out the jiuce and apply. (The Secrets of Alexis, 1595)
3. Chronic Leg Sores and Ulcers, boil Olive Leaf and Agrimony in wine, strain, then wash the sores well when the wine is lukewarm. Next apply a powder of Birthwort, Mastic, Myrrh, Dragons Blood, Pellitory of Spain, loes, Tutty (Zinc oxide), burned rind of Gourds, of each 1 oz., Mummy (Shilajit) and Armenian Earth, 2 drams each. Apply this powder to the wound and bind on with the herbs boiled in wine, changing once or twice daily. (The Secrets of Alexis, 1595)


Cautions:


None noted

Main Preparations used:


‘Oil of the Philosopher’s’, a special distilled Oil from Olive Oil discusses, maturates and mollifies, and is good topically for cold hard Tumors, Gout etc.