Had to just do this to show someone so thought I'd post it here too...Hopefully the image inserts!
This treatment would target the uterine horns and uterus, it's an external treatment, first applied at the groin area, this would be using Herb Paris as the medicine if the order of the book is correct and this would be the write up on that for the completed folio, just wanted to show you
The Tri-Uterine Treatment and Herb Paris
The folio showing three open cup-shapes with blue marks represents a treatment directed at the female reproductive system, shown as three internal chambers — the uterus and the two uterine horns. This three-part structure wasn’t a modern idea; it goes all the way back to classical medicine and appears again in both medieval and Renaissance texts. Writers like Hippocrates and Soranus of Ephesus described the womb as having “two corners or horns” where the seed travelled, and the same structure is repeated in Arabic and Latin medical texts right through to the 15th century.
In Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine (Book 3, Fen 20, Treatise 1), the uterus is again described as having “two corners or horns that rise toward the kidneys.” He also explains that blockages or inflammation can affect both the womb and its horns together, and recommends steam, poultices or warm compresses “so that the vapour may reach the matrix and its corners alike.” Later analyses of the Canon confirm this — Avicenna clearly understood the reproductive system as three connected chambers through which fluids move and mix (see PMC11090949; ResearchGate 334596366).
That same three-chamber logic appears in European medicine. The Trotula recommends fumigating the lower body “so the vapour enters the womb and both its horns,” and Pseudo-Albertus’ De Secretis Mulierum says the same thing: treat all three parts at once to restore balance and fertility. So a treatment targeting all three chambers — uterus and horns together — fits perfectly into that historical medical model.
Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia) was one of the plants used for these kinds of uterine problems. In older herbals it’s almost always described as cooling, calming, and balancing the womb:
Dioscorides lists it for inflammations.
Fuchs (1542) and Dodoens (1554) say it tempers the womb when inflamed or over-dry.
Gerard (1597) notes that the juice “cooleth the matrix and helpeth women that are grieved with the heat thereof.”
Culpeper (1653) calls it a remedy that “mitigates the heat of the matrix and restores the natural temperature of the womb.”
In the decode, the sap from Herb Paris (shown on F15v) is the substance used in this treatment. The blue pigment on the three cups shows cooling and restoration happening inside the uterus and its horns, while the text placed off the plant means the medicine was applied externally — a poultice or vapour working through the skin and lower body to calm the internal system.
So this folio shows a female uterine treatment, targeting all three internal chambers — uterus and horns — at the same time, using the cooling sap of Herb Paris to restore balance and fertility.
:-) And it works like this up to f28 anyway and all treatments are different and some blue parts are never ever red, still logging and cataloguing it all
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