CND-0040Water, kidneys and stones
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and let it infuse hot over a gentle fire twelve hours, then strain it out, so have you a most excellent drink to open obstructions of the liver and spleen, to help difficulty of breath, bruises and falls, and congealed blood in any part of the body, it helps the yellow jaundice, the dropsy, and black jaundice, and to cleanse women newly brought to bed.
being boiled in whey, it wonderfully helps the obstructions of the liver and spleen, and therefore profitable for the dropsy and jaundice;
and the water distilled therefrom being taken, a small quantity every morning fasting, is a singular medicine for those that are subject to dropsy, or to abate the greatness of those that are too gross or fat.
and is therefore good for palsies, convulsions, cramps, and stitches in the sides, and the dropsy, and for provoking urine;
whereby it helps the dropsy, gout, sciatica, and pains of the hips and joints;
Syrup made of the juice of Camomile, with the flowers, in white wine, is a remedy against the jaundice and dropsy.
the seed also of the same works the like effect, and is good for the dropsy, and those whose bellies are swelling with wind;
and often using it, helps the dropsy and the itch, and those who have old sores in their legs, or other parts of the body.
The decoction of the root hereof in wine, is very effectual to open obstructions of the spleen and liver, and helps yellow jaundice, dropsy, pains of the loins, and wind cholic, provokes urine, and expels the stone, procures women’s courses.
This is frequently used to spend the abundance of those watery humours by urine which cause the dropsy.
it helps the jaundice and the dropsy, evacuating those humours both upwards and downwards;
and with figs it helps the dropsy, being bathed therewith:
This taken with honey (saith Dioscorides) is a remedy for coughs, hardness of the spleen and difficulty of urine, and helps those that are fallen into a dropsy, especially at the beginning of the disease, a decoction being made thereof when it is green, and drank.
It purges the body of choler and phlegm, being either taken of itself, made into powder, and drank in a draught of white wine, or steeped therein all night, and taken fasting, or put among other purges, as shall be thought convenient, cleansing the stomach, liver, and blood, opening obstructions, and helping those griefs that come thereof, as the jaundice, dropsy, swelling of the spleen, tertain and daily agues, and pricking pains of the sides;
The pills also, continued for some time, are special good for those that have the dropsy, jaundice, and for griping pains of the joints, belly, or inward parts.
A scruple of the dried root given in wine and vinegar, is profitable for those that have the dropsy.
The seeds in the berries beaten to powder being drank in wine, are held singularly good against the stone, and are good for the dropsy.
so used they may be very helpful both for the dropsy, gout, and sciatica;
and being taken with figs and nitre, helps the dropsy and spleen;
It is so powerful a remedy against the dropsy, that the very lye made of the ashes of the herb being drank, cures the disease.
it also provokes urine, is available for the dropsy, and helps to break the stone.
Lavender is of a special good use for all the griefs and pains of the head and brain that proceed of a cold cause, as the apoplexy, falling-sickness, the dropsy, or sluggish malady, cramps, convulsions, palsies, and often faintings.
It is effectual also against the dropsy, cramps, and falling sickness;
The powder thereof taken in drink for some time together, is thought available for the dropsy.
The decoction thereof with Succory and Centaury is held very effectual to help the dropsy, and them that are inclining thereunto, and the diseases of the spleen.
It provokes urine, breaks and expels the stone, and is good for the dropsy.
Tragus sets down an excellent medicine to help the jaundice and falling sickness, the dropsy, and stone in the kidneys, in this manner:
The juice of Pellitory of the Wall clarified and boiled in a syrup with honey, and a spoonful of it drank every morning by such as are subject to the dropsy;
Matthiolus saith, The decoction thereof being drank, helps the jaundice and dropsy, all pains of the head and sinews that come of a cold cause, and clears the eye-sight.
The herb (but especially the seed) is held to be profitable against the dropsy, the falling-sickness, the yellow jaundice, and stoppings of the liver and reins.
whereby it is good for the yellow jaundice and for the dropsy in the beginning of it;
the dropsy also;
the bark of the root is less sharp and hot, but more bitter, and hath some astriction withal whereby it is effectual to break the stone, and good to open obstructions of the liver, spleen, and other inward parts, which bring the jaundice, dropsy, &c.
The inner yellow bark hereof purges downwards both choler and phlegm, and the watery humours of such that have the dropsy, and strengthens the inward parts again by binding.
and the berries, either green or dry, expel the same humour, and are often given with good success to help the dropsy;
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
it is also extremely good for the dropsy and falling sickness.
It helps those that have the dropsy, or the green-sickness, being much used by the Italians in powder for that purpose.
It helps the dropsy, arising from the hardness of the spleen, and therefore to drink out of cups made of the wood is good for splenetic persons.
It helps the yellow jaundice, the dropsy and the gout;
It helps the cachexia or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy and yellow-jaundice.
The juice of it being tempered with barley meal, baked, and so eaten for ordinary bread, is an excellent cure for the dropsy:
It provokes urine and the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice.
taken any of the aforesaid ways, it helps the jaundice, falling sickness, the palsy, convulsions, or shrinking of the sinews, the gout and those that are inclined to dropsy, those that have continual pains in their heads, although it turn to phrensy.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850