Fevers — (Pestilential)

CND-0050Fevers and infections

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

Modern reading: epidemic fevers; nearest is antimicrobial. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with plague OR "Yersinia pestis" OR "infectious disease" OR antibacterial OR antiviral. 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.

10 claims: 10 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Blue-Bottle Centaurea cyanusCLM-000772
    The seed or leaves taken in wine, is very good against the plague, and all infectious diseases, and is very good in pestilential fevers.
    QUO-000590Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Borage And Bugloss Borago officinalisCLM-000771
    The leaves and roots are to very good purpose used in putrid and pestilential fevers, to defend the heart, and help to resist and expel the poison, or the venom of other creatures:
    QUO-000589Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Clove Gilliflowers Dianthus caryophyllusCLM-0023101850 index, p. 83 Not in 1652
    They are also excellently good in hot pestilent fevers, and expel poison.
    QUO-000598Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Dandelion, Vulgarly Called Piss-A-Beds Taraxacum officinaleCLM-000774
    The distilled water is effectual to drink in pestilential fevers, and to wash the sores.
    QUO-000593Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Elecampane Inula heleniumCLM-0007751850 index
    it resists poison, and stays the spreading of the venom of serpents, as also putrid and pestilential fevers, and the plague itself.
    QUO-000597Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. Pimpernel Lysimachia arvensisCLM-000777
    being boiled in wine and given to drink, it is a good remedy against the plague, and other pestilential fevers, if the party after taking it be warm in his bed, and sweat for two hours after, and use the same for twice at least.
    QUO-000603Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. Stone-Crop, Prick-Madam, Or Small-Houseleek Sedum acreCLM-000779 Not in 1652
    It expels poison much, resists pestilential fevers, being exceeding good also for tertian agues:
    QUO-000052Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. The Butter-Bur, Or Petasitis Petasites hybridusCLM-0007731850 index
    The roots thereof are by long experience found to be very available against the plague and pestilential fevers by provoking sweat;
    QUO-000591Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  9. White Lilies Lilium candidumCLM-000776 Not in 1652
    they are excellently good in pestilential fevers, the roots being bruised and boiled in wine, and the decoction drank;
    QUO-000600Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  10. Wood Sorrel Oxalis acetosellaCLM-000778
    Wood Sorrel serves to all the purposes that the other Sorrels do, and is more effectual in hindering putrefaction of blood, and ulcers in the mouth and body, and to quench thirst, to strengthen a weak stomach, to procure an appetite, to stay vomiting, and very excellent in any contagious sickness or pestilential fevers.
    QUO-000096Papers 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