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Recipe · Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1850 edition)

Centaury · vehicle not stated

Original passage

Centaurium, majus, minus. the greater and less. They say the greater will do wonders in curing wounds: see the root. The less is a present remedy for the yellow jaundice, opens stoppings of the liver, gall, and spleen: purges choler, helps gout, clears the sight, purgeth the stomach, helps the dropsy and green sickness. It is only the tops and flowers which are useful, of which you may take a dram inwardly in powder, or half a handful boiled in posset-drink at a time.

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (incl. The English Physician Enlarged, Family Dispensatory, Last Legacies) (1850 edition) · Entry “HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES.” · lines 16474–16480 · passage culpeper-1850:dispensatory:s009-herbs-and-their-leaves:070

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  1. 1PlantCentaury“Centaury”
  2. 2Use (as written)curing wounds“curing wounds”
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