Agues — Dry

CND-0005Fevers and infections

Open in the Concordance

Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— Dry” under “Agues” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Agues — Dry”.

Modern reading: malaria and intermittent fever. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with malaria OR antimalarial OR antiplasmodial OR "intermittent fever" OR antipyretic. 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.

3 claims: 2 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

  1. Costmary, Or Alcost, Or Balsam Herb Tanacetum balsamitaCLM-000059
    it dissolves without attraction, opens obstructions, and helps their evil effects, and it is a wonderful help to all sorts of dry agues.
    QUO-000020Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Lovage Levisticum officinaleCLM-0022641850 index, p. 108
    It is a known and much praised remedy to drink the decoction of the herb for any sort of ague, and to help the pains and torments of the body and bowels coming of cold.
    QUO-000254Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Sweet Maudlin Achillea ageratumCLM-0022631850 index, p. 114

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

    Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

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