Chilblains

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

Modern reading: chilblains. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with chilblains OR pernio OR frostbite OR "cold injury". 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.

4 claims: 4 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Beets Beta vulgarisCLM-000442

   the herb boiled, and laid upon chilblains or kibes, helps them.

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2. Henbane Hyoscyamus nigerCLM-0004441850 index

   The fume of the dried herb, stalks and seed, burned, quickly heals swellings, chilblains or kibes in the hands or feet, by holding them in the fume thereof.

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3. Kidneywort, Or Wall Pennyroyal Or Wall Pennywort Umbilicus rupestrisCLM-000445

   healing kibes and chilblains if they be bathed with the juice, or anointed with ointment made thereof, and some of the skin of the leaf upon them:

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4. The Fig-Tree Ficus caricaCLM-000443 Not in 1652

   The ashes of the wood made into an ointment with hog’s grease, helps kibes and chilblains.

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Source

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