Willow — joint and pain signature
flexible branches and water affinity
Willow's flexible, water-loving growth was folded into later signature narratives about joints and pain, alongside its genuine history in salicylate-containing remedies. The limb marker is a broad target-region projection of those stories, not a claim that a plant's habitat or shape proves a treatment.
Point 6 of 6 in Doctrine of Signatures
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Paracelsus, Paragranum (primary)
Paragranum discusses the signatura as a way of reading the hidden virtue of natural things; see Book IV, the discussion of signatures and external signs.
Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (scholarly_modern)
Historical account of early-modern European medicine and Paracelsian natural philosophy; see the chapters on Renaissance medicine and Paracelsianism.