June 13, 2025
SANICLE
The healing virtues of the Sanicle (Sanicula) have, in England, passed into a proverb: “He that hath Sanicle needeth no surgeon;” whilst the French have a corresponding old saying, recording its curative powers:—
“Qui a la Bugle et la Sanicle
Fait au chirurgions la nicle.”
“Who Bugle and Sanicle hath
May safely at the surgeons laugh.”
In England, it was in former days called Self-heal, for according to one old herbalist, it would “make whole and sound all wounds and hurts, both inward and outward.”
Sanicle is held to be under the rule of Venus.