Almonds of the Ears

CND-0008Mouth and throat

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Historical label: “Almonds of the Ears” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.

Modern reading: the tonsils. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with tonsillitis OR tonsil OR lymphadenitis. 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.

2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Devil’s-Bit Succisa pratensisCLM-0022681850 index, p. 245

   The decoction of the herb, with honey of roses put therein, is very effectual to help the inveterate tumours and swellings of the almonds and throat, by often gargling the mouth therewith.

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2. Water-Caltrops Trapa natansCLM-000080 Not in 1652

   it cleanses and strengthens the neck and throat, and helps those swellings which, when people have, they say the almonds of the ears are fallen down.

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Source

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