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Recipe · Culpeper, The English Physitian (1652)

Cudweed in wine

Original passage

The Plants are all astringent, or binding and drying, and therfore profitable for Deflnxions of Rhewm from the Head, and to stay Fluxes, of Blood whersoever. being and drunk, or the Pouder taken therin; it also helpeth the Bloody Flux, and easeth the torments that come therby, stayeth the immoderate Courses of Women, and is also good for inward or outward Wounds, Hurts, and Bruises, and helpeth Children both of Burstings and the Worms; and the Diseas called Tenasmus, which is an often provocation to the Stool, and doing nothing, being either drunk or : The green Leavs bruised and laid to any green Wound staieth the bleeding, and healeth it up quickly: The Decoction or Juyce therof doth the same, and helpeth all old and filthy Ulcers quickly: The juyce of the Herb taken in Wine and Milk is (as Pliny saith) a Sovereign remedy against the Mumps and Quinsie; and further saith, That whosoever shal so take it, shal never be troubled with that Diseas again.

Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, or An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation (1652 edition) · Entry “Cudweed, or Cottonweed.” · vertues and use · lines 6334–6358 · passage culpeper-1652:herbal:cudweed-or-cottonweed:009

Extracted field (numbered)Illegible in source

What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1Heatboiled“The Decoction”
  2. 2Processdecoction“The Decoction”
  3. 3Solvent / vehicleWine“made into red Wine”
  4. 4Use (as written)the Diseas called Tenasmus, which is an often provocation to the Stool, and doing nothing“the Diseas called Tenasmus, which is an often provocation to the Stool, and doing nothing”
  5. 5Formother“injected”
  6. 6PlantCudweed“Cudweed” (from the entry heading)
  7. PartNot stated in source
  8. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  9. DurationNot stated in source
  10. FiltrationNot stated in source