Liquorice · vehicle not stated
Toxicity is reported for this plant. Shown as a historical record for laboratory analysis only — not a preparation to make or take.
Original passage
Government and virtues.] It is under the dominion of Mercury. boiled in fair water, with some Maiden-hair and figs, makes a good drink for those that have a dry cough or hoarseness, wheezing or shortness of breath, and for all the griefs of the breast and lungs, phthisic or consumptions caused by the distillation of salt humours on them. It is also good in all pains of the reins, the stranguary, and heat of urine: The fine powder of Liquorice blown through a quill into the eyes that have a pin and web (as they call it) or rheumatic distillations in them, doth cleanse and help them. is as effectual in all the diseases of the breast and lungs, the reins and bladder, as the decoction. The juice distilled in Rose-water, with some Gum Tragacanth, is a fine licking medicine for hoarseness, wheezing, &c.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (incl. The English Physician Enlarged, Family Dispensatory, Last Legacies) (1850 edition) · Entry “LIQUORICE.” · government and virtues · lines 7707–7719 · passage culpeper-1850:herbal:liquorice:003
What the pipeline extracted
- 1PlantProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Liquorice“Liquorice”
- 2PartProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.juice“The juice of Liquorice”
- 3Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.all the diseases of the breast and lungs, the reins and bladder“all the diseases of the breast and lungs, the reins and bladder”
- Fresh or driedNot stated in source
- Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
- HeatNot stated in source
- DurationNot stated in source
- FiltrationNot stated in source
- ProcessNot stated in source
- FormNot stated in source
Logged corrections
The fields above are as extracted. These corrections, each with its evidence, are applied in the audit and the ranking (config/m1_corrections.csv).
- Part: juice → rootCulpeper's 'juice of Liquorice' is the Dispensatory's Succus Glycyrrhizæ: a boiled, concentrated root extractEvidence: Culpeper 1850 Dispensatory, Succus Glycyrrhizæ simplex (culpeper-1850:dispensatory:s040-rob-or-sapa-and-juices:027), as above.Logged 2026-11-06
- solvent: unknown → watersameEvidence: as aboveLogged 2026-11-06
- Heat: unknown → boiledsameEvidence: as aboveLogged 2026-11-06
- Process: unknown → decoctionsameEvidence: as aboveLogged 2026-11-06
- filtered: unknown → yessameEvidence: as aboveLogged 2026-11-06