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Recipe · Culpeper, The English Physitian (1652)

Filipendula in 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 taking the Roots in Pouder, or a Decoction of them in white Wine, whereunto a little Honey is added: The same also helpeth to expel the Afterbirth. and 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

Extracted field (numbered)Illegible in source

What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1Partroot“The Roots made into Pouder”
  2. 2Heatcold“The Roots made into Pouder”
  3. 3Solvent / vehicleHoney“mixed with Honey”
  4. 4Processother“into the form of an Electuary”
  5. 5Formother“the form of an Electuary”
  6. 6Use (as written)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“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”
  7. 7PlantFilipendula“Filipendula” (from the entry heading)
  8. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  9. DurationNot stated in source
  10. FiltrationNot stated in source