Abortion (to prevent)

CND-0002Women and childbirth

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Historical label: “Abortion, (to prevent)” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”. Shown as “Abortion (to prevent)”.

Modern reading: miscarriage. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with miscarriage OR "abortion, spontaneous" OR "threatened abortion". The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.

Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

4 claims: 2 with a sentence, 2 from the index alone

1. Bistort, Or Snakeweed Bistorta officinalisCLM-000002

   The decoction of the root in wine being drank, hinders abortion or miscarriage in child-bearing.

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2. Garden Tansy Tanacetum vulgareCLM-0022591850 index, p. 245

   Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

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3. Sage Salvia officinalisCLM-0022581850 index, p. 244

   Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

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4. Tormentil, Or Septfoil Potentilla erectaCLM-000006

   The powder or decoction drank, or to sit thereon as a bath, is an assured remedy against abortion, if it proceed from the over flexibility or weakness of the inward retentive faculty;

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Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850