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Recipe · Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1850 edition)

Leeks · vehicle not stated

Original passage

are as like them in quality, as the pome-water is like an apple: They are a remedy against a surfeit of mushrooms, and taken, and being boiled and applied very warm, help the piles. In other things they have the same property as the Onions, although not so effectual.

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (incl. The English Physician Enlarged, Family Dispensatory, Last Legacies) (1850 edition) · Entry “ONIONS.” · government and virtues · lines 9272–9276 · passage culpeper-1850:herbal:onions:003

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What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1PlantLeeks“Leeks”
  2. 2Use (as written)a surfeit of mushrooms“a surfeit of mushrooms”
  3. 3Heatwarm“being baked under the embers”
  4. 4Processother“being baked under the embers”
  5. PartNot stated in source
  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