Cancers

CND-0024Swelling, pain and the whole body

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

Modern reading: cancer (Culpeper's word covered any eating sore; read with care). Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with cancer OR neoplasm OR antitumor OR anticancer OR cytotoxic. 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.

5 claims: 5 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Alehoof, Or Ground-Ivy Glechoma hederaceaCLM-000388

   The juice of it boiled with a little honey and verdigrease, doth wonderfully cleanse fistulas, ulcers, and stays the spreading or eating of cancers and ulcers;

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2. Asarabacca Asarum europaeumCLM-0003891850 index

   the roots purge more gently, and may prove beneficial to such as have cancers, or old putrified ulcers, or fistulas upon their bodies, to take a dram of them in powder in a quarter of a pint of white wine in the morning.

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3. Briony, Or Wild Vine Bryonia dioicaCLM-0003901850 index

   and being applied with a little wine mixed therewith, it breaks boils, and helps whitlows on the joints.—For all these latter, beginning at sores, cancers, &c.

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4. Cinquefoil, Or Five-Leaved Grass; Called In Some Counties Five-Fingered Grass Potentilla reptansCLM-0003911850 index

   As also for all lotions, gargles, infections, and the like, for sore mouths, ulcers, cancers, fistulas, and other corrupt, foul, or running sores.

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5. The Yellow Water-Flag, Or Flower-De-Luce Iris pseudacorusCLM-0003921850 index

   The said water fomented on swellings and hot inflammations of women’s breasts, upon cancers also, and those spreading ulcers called _Noli me tangere_, do much good:

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Source

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