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Recipe · Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1850 edition)

Fleabane · vehicle not stated

Original passage

Pulicaria. ; hot and dry in the third degree, helps the biting of venomous beasts, wounds and swellings, the yellow jaundice, the falling sickness, and such as cannot make water; being burnt, the smoak of it kills all the gnats and fleas in the chamber; it is dangerous for pregnant women.

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (incl. The English Physician Enlarged, Family Dispensatory, Last Legacies) (1850 edition) · Entry “HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES.” · lines 17171–17175 · passage culpeper-1850:dispensatory:s009-herbs-and-their-leaves:222

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What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1PlantFleabane“Fleabane”
  2. 2Use (as written)the biting of venomous beasts, wounds and swellings, the yellow jaundice, the falling sickness, and such as cannot make water“the biting of venomous beasts, wounds and swellings, the yellow jaundice, the falling sickness, and such as cannot make water”
  3. PartNot stated in source
  4. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  5. Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
  6. HeatNot stated in source
  7. DurationNot stated in source
  8. FiltrationNot stated in source
  9. ProcessNot stated in source
  10. FormNot stated in source