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Recipe · Culpeper, The English Physitian (1652)

Butter-Bur in wine

Original passage

are by long experience found to be very available against the Plague and Pestilential Feavers, by provoking Sweat, if , it also resisteth the force of any other Poyson. The Root hereof taken with Zedoàry and Angelica, or without them, helps the rising of the Mother: The Decoction of the Root in Wine is singular good for those that wheeze much, or are short-winded. It provoketh Urin also and Womens courses, and killeth the flat and broad Worms in the Belly. The Pouder of the Root doth wonderfully help to dry up the moisture of sores that are hard to be cured, and taketh away all spots and blemishes of the skin.

Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, or An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation (1652 edition) · Entry “☉ The Butter-Bur.” · vertues and use · lines 4437–4456 · passage culpeper-1652:herbal:the-butter-bur:006

Extracted field (numbered)Illegible in source

What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1Partroot“The Roots hereof”
  2. 2Use (as written)the Plague and Pestilential Feavers“the Plague and Pestilential Feavers”
  3. 3Heatcold“the Pouder therof be taken in Wine”
  4. 4Filtrationno“the Pouder therof be taken in Wine”
  5. 5Processpowder“the Pouder therof”
  6. 6Solvent / vehicleWine“taken in Wine”
  7. 7Formdrink“taken in Wine”
  8. 8PlantButter-Bur“Butter-Bur” (from the entry heading)
  9. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  10. DurationNot stated in source