Meadow-sweet · vehicle not stated
A toxicity concern is recorded for this plant. Shown for analysis only.
Original passage
It is used to stay all manner of Bleedings, Fluxes, Vomitings, and Womens Courses, and also their Whites, It is said to alter and take away the fits of Quartan Agues, and to make a merry heart, for which purpose , and some the Leavs. It helpeth speedily those that are troubled with the Chollick, being boyled in Wine; and with a little Honey taken warm, it openeth the Belly: but boyled in red Wine and drunk it stayeth the Flux of the Belly. Being outwardly applied, it healeth old Ulcers that are Cankrous or eaten, or hollow and Fistulous, for which it is by many much commended, as also for the Sores in the Mouth or secret parts.
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, or An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation (1652 edition) · Entry “Queen of the Meadows, Meadow-sweet, or Mead-sweet.” · vertues and use · lines 15515–15529 · passage culpeper-1652:herbal:queen-of-the-meadows-meadow-sweet-or-mead-sweet:008
What the pipeline extracted
- 1Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.alter and take away the fits of Quartan Agues, and to make a merry heart“alter and take away the fits of Quartan Agues, and to make a merry heart”
- 2PartProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.flower“some use the Flowers”
- 3PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Meadow-sweet“Meadow-sweet” (from the entry heading)
- Fresh or driedNot stated in source
- Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
- HeatNot stated in source
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- FormNot stated in source