Colds

CND-0031Chest and breathing

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

Modern reading: colds. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with "common cold" OR rhinitis OR "upper respiratory tract infection" OR catarrh. 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.

7 claims: 6 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

  1. Arssmart Persicaria hydropiperCLM-000486
    The juice thereof dropped in, or otherwise applied, consumes all colds, swellings, and dissolveth the congealed blood of bruises by strokes, falls, &c.
    QUO-000306Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Camomile Chamaemelum nobileCLM-000488
    The flowers boiled in posset-drink provokes sweat, and helps to expel all colds, aches, and pains whatsoever, and is an excellent help to bring down women’s courses.
    QUO-000413Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Feverfew Or Featherfew Tanacetum partheniumCLM-000489
    The decoction thereof made with some sugar, or honey put thereto, is used by many with good success to help the cough and stuffing of the chest, by colds, as also to cleanse the reins and bladder, and helps to expel the stone in them.
    QUO-000360Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Garden Tansy Tanacetum vulgareCLM-000491
    Being boiled in oil, it is good for the sinews shrunk by cramps, or pained with colds, if thereto applied.
    QUO-000415Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Juice Of LiquoriceCLM-0022821850 index, p. 312

    Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.

    Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. Nep, Or Catmint Nepeta catariaCLM-0004901850 index
    It is effectual for any cramp, or cold aches, to dissolve cold and wind that afflict the place, and is used for colds, coughs, and shortness of breath.
    QUO-000414Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. Wood Betony Stachys officinalisCLM-000487
    The powder mixed with pure honey is no less available for all sorts of coughs or colds, wheesing, or shortness of breath, distillations of thin rheum upon the lungs, which causes consumptions.
    QUO-000412Papers 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