Burns

CND-0023Wounds, bruises and sores

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

Modern reading: burns. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with burns OR "burn wound" OR "wound healing". 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: 3 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Hound’s Tongue Cynoglossum officinaleCLM-0022791850 index, pp. 98, 359

   as also for any place that is scalded or burnt;

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2. Pellitory Of The Wall Parietaria officinalisCLM-000387

   The distilled water of the herb drank with some sugar, works the same effects, and cleanses the skin from spots, freckles, purples, wheals, sun-burn, morphew, &c.

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3. The Burdock Arctium lappaCLM-0022781850 index, p. 36

   The leaves bruised with the white of an egg, and applied to any place burnt with fire, takes out the fire, gives sudden ease, and heals it up afterwards.

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Source

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