moneywort
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moneywort (plural moneyworts)
- A European vine, Lysimachia nummularia, having yellow flowers; creeping Jenny, creeping Charlie, herb twopence.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 193:
- Moneywort is singular good to stay all fluxes in man or woman, whether they be lasks, bloody fluxes, the flowing of women's courses, bleedings inwardly or outwardly, and the weakness of the stomach that is given to casting.
- Bacopa monnieri.
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Lysimachia nummularia
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