Chin-Cough

CND-0028Chest and breathing

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

Modern reading: whooping cough. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with pertussis OR "whooping cough". 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.

2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Mallows And Marshmallows Malva sylvestrisCLM-000446

   The dried roots boiled in milk and drank, is especially good for the chin-cough.

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2. Thyme Thymus vulgarisCLM-0004471850 index Not in 1652

   neither is there scarce a better remedy growing for that disease in children which they commonly call the Chin-cough, than it is.

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Source

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