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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, being baked under the embers and taken, and , 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

Extracted field (numbered)Illegible in source

What the pipeline extracted

  1. 1PlantLeeks“Leeks”
  2. 2Heatboiled“being boiled and applied very warm”
  3. 3Filtrationnot applicable“being boiled and applied”
  4. 4Formpoultice“being boiled and applied”
  5. 5Use (as written)the piles“the piles”
  6. PartNot stated in source
  7. Fresh or driedNot stated in source
  8. Solvent / vehicleNot stated in source
  9. DurationNot stated in source
  10. ProcessNot stated in source