Anthony’s Fire

CND-0009Skin

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

Modern reading: erysipelas. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with erysipelas OR cellulitis OR "skin infection" OR streptococcal. 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.

19 claims: 19 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Alkanet Alkanna tinctoriaCLM-000081 Not in 1652
    It helps old ulcers, hot inflammations, burnings by common fire, and St. Anthony’s fire, by antipathy to Mars;
    QUO-000061Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Beets Beta vulgarisCLM-000082
    it helps burnings, being used with oil, and with a little alum put to it, is good for St. Anthony’s fire.
    QUO-000062Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Cinquefoil, Or Five-Leaved Grass; Called In Some Counties Five-Fingered Grass Potentilla reptansCLM-000083
    as also inflammations, and St. Anthony’s fire, all imposthumes, and painful sores with heat and putrefaction, the shingles also, and all other sorts of running and foul scabs, sores and itch.
    QUO-000063Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Coltsfoot Tussilago farfaraCLM-000084
    It helps St. Anthony’s fire, and burnings, and is singularly good to take away wheals and small pushes that arise through heat;
    QUO-000064Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Crab’s Claws Stratiotes aloidesCLM-0000851850 index Not in 1652
    it is excellently good for inflammation which is commonly called St. Anthony’s Fire;
    QUO-000065Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. Duck’s Meat Lemna minorCLM-0000861850 index
    It is effectual to help inflammations, and St. Anthony’s Fire, as also the gout, either applied by itself, or in a poultice with Barley meal.
    QUO-000066Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. Garden-Rue Ruta graveolensCLM-000096
    An ointment made of the juice thereof with oil of roses, ceruse, and a little vinegar, and anointed, cures St. Anthony’s fire, and all running sores in the head:
    QUO-000076Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. Gooseberry Bush Ribes uva-crispaCLM-000087 Not in 1652
    as also St. Anthony’s fire.
    QUO-000067Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  9. Hawk-Weed HieraciumCLM-0000881850 index
    as also inflammations, St. Anthony’s fire, and all pushes and eruptions, hot and salt phlegm.
    QUO-000068Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  10. Hemlock Conium maculatumCLM-000089
    It may safely be applied to inflammations, tumours, and swellings in any part of the body (save the privy parts) as also to St. Anthony’s fire, wheals, pushes, and creeping ulcers that arise of hot sharp humours, by cooling and repelling the heat;
    QUO-000069Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  11. Houseleek Or Sengreen Sempervivum tectorumCLM-000090
    It cools and restrains all other hot inflammations, St. Anthony’s fire, scaldings and burnings, the shingles, fretting ulcers, cankers, tettors, ringworms, and the like;
    QUO-000070Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  12. Kidneywort, Or Wall Pennyroyal Or Wall Pennywort Umbilicus rupestrisCLM-000091
    the herb, juice, or distilled water thereof, outwardly applied, heals pimples, St. Anthony’s fire, and other outward heats.
    QUO-000071Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  13. Mallows And Marshmallows Malva sylvestrisCLM-000092
    It is also effectual against scaldings and burnings, St. Anthony’s fire, and all other hot, red, and painful swellings in any part of the body.
    QUO-000072Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  14. Poppy PapaverCLM-000093
    as also if the head and temples be bathed with the decoction warm, or with the oil of Poppies, the green leaves or the heads bruised and applied with a little vinegar, or made into a poultice with barley-meal or hog’s grease, cools and tempers all inflammations, as also the disease called St. Anthony’s fire.
    QUO-000073Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  15. Purslain Portulaca oleraceaCLM-000094
    and applied to the eyes, takes away the redness and inflammation in them, and those other parts where pushes, wheals, pimples, St. Anthony’s fire and the like, break forth;
    QUO-000074Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  16. Roses RosaCLM-000095
    as also St. Anthony’s fire, and other diseases of the stomach.
    QUO-000075Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  17. Shepherd’s Purse Capsella bursa-pastorisCLM-000097 Not in 1652
    The herb being made into a poultice, helps inflammations and St. Anthony’s fire.
    QUO-000077Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  18. Succory, Or Chicory Cichorium intybusCLM-000098
    The said water, or the juice, or the bruised leaves applied outwardly, allay swellings, inflammations, St. Anthony’s fire, pushes, wheals, and pimples, especially used with a little vinegar;
    QUO-000078Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  19. Woad Isatis tinctoriaCLM-000099
    It cools inflammations, quenches St. Anthony’s fire, and stays defluxion of the blood to any part of the body.
    QUO-000079Papers 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