Gout

CND-0055Swelling, pain and the whole body

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Historical label: “Gout” 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.

4 claims: 4 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Comfrey Symphytum officinaleCLM-0023171850 index, p. 54
    The roots of Comfrey taken fresh, beaten small, and spread upon leather, and laid upon any place troubled with the gout, doth presently give ease of the pains;
    QUO-001422Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Gout-Wort, Or Herb Gerrard Aegopodium podagrariaCLM-0023191850 index, p. 85
    Neither is it to be supposed Gout-wort hath its name for nothing but upon experiment to heal the gout and sciatica;
    QUO-001424Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Sciatica Cresses Lepidium graminifoliumCLM-0023181850 index, p. 57
    the place afterwards bathed with wine and oil mixed together, and then wrapped with wool or skins, after they have sweat a little, will assuredly cure not only the same disease in hips, knuckle-bone, or other of the joints, as gout in the hands or feet, but all other old griefs of the head, (as inveterate rheums,) and other parts of the body that are hard to be cured.
    QUO-001423Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. The Elm Tree UlmusCLM-0023201850 index, p. 68
    The said bark ground with brine or pickle, until it come to the form of a poultice, and laid on the place pained with the gout, gives great ease.
    QUO-001425Papers 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