Liquorice in other vehicle
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. The juice of Liquorice is as effectual in all the diseases of the breast and lungs, the reins and bladder, as the decoction. , with some Gum Tragacanth, is 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 distilled in Rose-water”
- 3HeatProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.boiled“The juice distilled”
- 4ProcessProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.distillation“The juice distilled”
- 5Solvent / vehicleProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.Other vehicle“distilled in Rose-water”
- 6FormProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.other“a fine licking medicine”
- 7Use (as written)ProvisionalNot independently validated. Read it as a lead, not a finding.hoarseness, wheezing, &c.“hoarseness, wheezing, &c”
- Fresh or driedNot stated in source
- DurationNot stated in source
- FiltrationNot 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 → rootThe juice in rose water is Culpeper's Succus Glycyrrhizæ, a boiled, concentrated water extract of the root (requested 2026-11-06: correct the rose-water recipes the same way). Not changed: process 'distillation' from this edition's wording 'distilled in Rose-water' (the 1652 text says 'dissolved'); the Dispensatory evidence does not settle that wordingEvidence: as aboveLogged 2026-11-06
- solvent: other → other+watersame; the extract is made in water, then put in rose water (other)Evidence: as aboveLogged 2026-11-06
- filtered: unknown → yessameEvidence: as above ('press it hard out')Logged 2026-11-06