Flux

CND-0054Stomach and bowels

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

Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.

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.

3 claims: 2 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

  1. Bistort, Or Snakeweed Bistorta officinalisCLM-0023141850 index, p. 25
    The root in powder, the decoction thereof in wine being drank, stays all manner of inward bleeding, or spitting of blood, and any fluxes in the body of either man or woman, or vomiting.
    QUO-000109Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Flux-Weed Descurainia sophiaCLM-0023151850 index, p. 78
    Both the herb and seed of Flux-weed is of excellent use to stay the flux or lask of the belly, being drank in water wherein gads of steel heated have been often quenched;
    QUO-001421Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Rhubarb Of PontusCLM-0023161850 index, p. 225

    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

Source

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