Filipendula in wine + honey
Original passage
It is very effectual to open the passages of the Urine, and help the Strangury, and all other pains of the Bladder and Reins, helping mightily to expel the Stone in the Kidnies or Bladder, and the Gravel also, and these are done by in white Wine, whereunto : The same also helpeth to expel the Afterbirth. The Roots made into Pouder and mixed with Honey into the form of an Electuary doth much help them whose Stomachs are swollen, dissolving and breaking the Wind which was the cause therof, and is also very effectual for all diseases of the Lungs, as shortness of breath, wheesings, hoarsness of the Throat, and the Cough, and to expectorate cold Flegm, or any other parts thereabouts.
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, or An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation (1652 edition) · Entry “Filipendula, or Dropwort. ♀” · vertues and use · lines 8315–8335 · passage culpeper-1652:herbal:filipendula-or-dropwort:008
What the pipeline extracted
- 1Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.to open the passages of the Urine, and help the Strangury, and all other pains of the Bladder and Reins, helping mightily to expel the Stone in the Kidnies or Bladder, and the Gravel also“to open the passages of the Urine, and help the Strangury, and all other pains of the Bladder and Reins, helping mightily to expel the Stone in the Kidnies or Bladder, and the Gravel also”
- 2PartProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.root“taking the Roots in Pouder, or a Decoction of them”
- 3Solvent / vehicleProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Wine + honey“a Decoction of them in white Wine”
- 4HeatProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.boiled“a Decoction of them”
- 5ProcessProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.decoction“a Decoction of them in white Wine”
- 6Solvent / vehicleProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Wine + honey“a little Honey is added”
- 7PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Filipendula“Filipendula” (from the entry heading)
- Fresh or driedNot stated in source
- DurationNot stated in source
- FiltrationNot stated in source
- FormNot stated in source