Apoplexy

CND-0010Head, mind and nerves

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

Modern reading: stroke. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with stroke OR cerebrovascular OR neuroprotective OR ischemia. 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.

6 claims: 6 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Lavender Lavandula angustifoliaCLM-0001181850 index
    Lavender is of a special good use for all the griefs and pains of the head and brain that proceed of a cold cause, as the apoplexy, falling-sickness, the dropsy, or sluggish malady, cramps, convulsions, palsies, and often faintings.
    QUO-000098Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Lily Of The Valley Convallaria majalisCLM-0001191850 index Not in 1652
    The spirit of the flowers distilled in wine, restores lost speech, helps the palsy, and is excellently good in the apoplexy, comforts the heart and vital spirits.
    QUO-000099Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Mellilot, Or King’s Claver Melilotus officinalisCLM-000120
    as also to strengthen the memory, to comfort the head and brain, and to preserve them from pain, and the apoplexy.
    QUO-000100Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Misselto Viscum albumCLM-000121
    Some have so highly esteemed it for the virtues thereof, that they have called it _Lignum Sanctiæ Crucis_, Wood of the Holy Cross, believing it helps the falling sickness, apoplexy and palsy very speedily, not only to be inwardly taken, but to be hung at their neck.
    QUO-000101Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Pellitory Of Spain Anacyclus pyrethrumCLM-000122 Not in 1652
    thereby not only easing pains in the head and teeth, but also hinders the distilling of the brain upon the lungs and eyes, thereby preventing coughs, phthisicks and consumption, the apoplexy and falling sickness.
    QUO-000102Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. Wall Flowers, Or Winter Gilli-Flowers Erysimum cheiriCLM-000123
    A conserve made of the flowers, is used for a remedy both for the apoplexy and palsy.
    QUO-000103Papers 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