Eyes — (inflammations of)

CND-0043Head, mind and nerves

Open in the Concordance

Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (inflammations of)” under “Eyes” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Eyes — (inflammations of)”.

Modern reading: inflamed eyes. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with conjunctivitis OR "eye inflammation" OR ophthalmia OR keratitis OR uveitis. 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. Anemone AnemoneCLM-0023021850 index, p. 9 Not in 1652
    Being made into an ointment, and the eyelids anointed with it, it helps inflammations of the eyes, whereby it is palpable, that every stronger draws its weaker like.
    QUO-000681Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Groundsel Senecio vulgarisCLM-0023031850 index, p. 87
    The distilled water of the herb performs well all the aforesaid cures, but especially for inflammations or watering of the eyes, by reason of the defluxion of rheum unto them.
    QUO-000699Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Meadow Trefoil, Or Honeysuckles Trifolium pratenseCLM-000206
    it also allays the heat and blood shooting of them.
    QUO-000180Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Violets Viola odorataCLM-0023011850 index, p. 188
    All the Violets are cold and moist while they are fresh and green, and are used to cool any heat, or distemperature of the body, either inwardly or outwardly, as inflammations in the eyes, in the matrix or fundament, in imposthumes also, and hot swellings, to drink the decoction of the leaves and flowers made with water in wine, or to apply them poultice-wise to the grieved places:
    QUO-000677Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Wheat Triticum aestivumCLM-000209
    slices of Wheat bread soaked in red rose water, and applied to the eyes that are hot, red, and inflamed, or blood-shotten, helps them.
    QUO-000182Papers 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