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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 which are useful, of which you may , 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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What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1PlantCentaury“Centaury”
  2. 2Use (as written)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“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”
  3. 3Partother“the tops and flowers”
  4. 4Heatcold“take a dram inwardly in powder”
  5. 5Processpowder“in powder”
  6. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  7. Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
  8. DurationNot stated in source
  9. FiltrationNot stated in source
  10. FormNot stated in source