Another familiar plant which has long had a reputation as a vulnerary is the self-heal, or carpenter's herb (Prunella vulgaris), on account of its corolla being shaped like a bill-hook.

It would be a pity to Latinize Touch-me-not, or Yarrow, or Gold-Thread, or Self-Heal, or Columbine, or Blue-Eyed-Grass,though, to be sure, this last has an annoying way of shutting up its azure orbs the moment you gather it, and you reach home with a bare, stiff blade, which deserves no better name than Sisyrinchium anceps.

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R62130, 11May50, Clare Evans Marden (W) SELF-HEALING SIMPLIFIED, by George Landor Perin.

SEE Self-healing simplified.

R62130, 11May50, Clare Evans Marden (W) SELF-HEALING SIMPLIFIED, by George Landor Perin.

Chills can be caught amidst the most glorious scenerythe little tufts of purple self-heal at my feet were shivering and shaking in a biting breeze that swept down from the snows to the north-east, and although I am an admirer of Kingsley, I do not hold with him in his wrong-headed admiration for a "nor'-easter"so I quitted my perch in search of tea.

Lower down I can see the lilac flowers of a self-heal, and the bottom of the little gorge is clothed with a bush like a hazel, only with large, soft whitish flowers.

Self-Healing by Psychic Power.