Agues — Quartan

CND-0007Fevers and infections

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

Modern reading: quartan malaria (P. malariae). Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with malaria OR antimalarial OR antiplasmodial OR Plasmodium. 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.

12 claims: 11 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

1. Agrimony Agrimonia eupatoriaCLM-000070

   A draught of the decoction taken warm before the fit, first removes, and in time rids away the tertian or quartan agues.

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2. Archangel LamiumCLM-000071

   It makes the heart merry, drives away melancholy, quickens the spirits, is good against quartan agues, stancheth bleeding at mouth and nose, if it be stamped and applied to the nape of the neck;

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3. Black Hellebore Helleborus nigerCLM-000074 Not in 1652

   The roots are very effectual against all melancholy diseases, especially such as are of long standing, as quartan agues and madness;

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4. Carduus Benedictus Centaurea benedictaCLM-000072

   It cures quartan agues, and other diseases of melancholy, and adust choler, by sympathy to Saturn, Mars being exalted in Capricorn.

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5. Cinquefoil, Or Five-Leaved Grass; Called In Some Counties Five-Fingered Grass Potentilla reptansCLM-0022671850 index, p. 242

   Some hold that one leaf cures a quotidian, three a tertain, and four a quartan ague, and a hundred to one if it be not Dioscorides;

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6. Fumitory Fumaria officinalisCLM-0022661850 index, p. 237

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

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7. Germander Teucrium chamaedrysCLM-000073

   The decoction thereof taken for four days together, drives away and cures both tertain and quartan agues.

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8. Plantain Plantago majorCLM-000075

   Dioscorides saith, that three roots boiled in wine and taken, helps the tertain agues, and for the quartan agues, (but letting the number pass as fabulous) I conceive the decoction of divers roots may be effectual.

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9. Polypody Of The Oak Polypodium vulgareCLM-000076

   Meuse (who is called the Physician’s Evangelist for the certainty of his medicines, and the truth of his opinion) saith, That it dries up thin humours, digests thick and tough, and purges burnt choler, and especially tough and thick phlegm, and thin phlegm also, even from the joints, and therefore good for those that are troubled with melancholy, or quartan agues, especially if it be taken in whey or honied water, or in barley-water, or the broth of a chicken with Epithymum, or with Beets and Mallows.

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10. Queen Of The Meadows, Meadow Sweet, Or Mead Sweet Filipendula ulmariaCLM-000077

    It is said to alter and take away the fits of the quartan agues, and to make a merry heart, for which purpose some use the flowers, and some the leaves.

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11. Smallage Apium graveolensCLM-000078

    It provokes urine and women’s courses, and is singularly good against the yellow jaundice, tertian and quartan agues, if the juice thereof be taken, but especially made up into a syrup.

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12. Vervain Verbena officinalisCLM-000079

    It is held to be good against the biting of serpents, and other venomous beasts, against the plague, and both tertian and quartan agues.

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Source

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