CND-0056Water, kidneys and stones
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It helps the yellow jaundice, spleen, and gravel in the kidneys.
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
it cleanses the reins and kidneys from gravel and stone, by opening the obstructions of the spleen, and consume the hardness and swelling thereof.
The decoction of the root made with wine opens obstructions, provokes urine, helps to expel gravel and the stone, the stranguary and women’s courses, also the yellow jaundice and the head-ache;
and being drank, helps to expel urine, being stopped, and gravel and stone in the reins and kidneys.
It cleanses the bladder, and provokes urine, expels gravel, and the stone;
It is found by experience to be singularly good for wind cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel in the kidneys.
It is profitable for those that are troubled with the stone in the kidneys, both to ease the pains by provoking urine, and also to expel gravel and the stone engendered therein, and hath been found very effectual to expel windiness, and other humours, which cause the strangling of the mother.
the stone in the kidneys or bladder, the gravel, and all other pains of the bladder and reins, by taking the roots in powder, or a decoction of them in white wine, with a little honey.
a dram at a time taken in white wine to prevent the stone, or to cleanse the kidneys of gravel or stoppage.
Arnoldus de Villa Nova commends it much against the stone in the reins and kidneys, and to provoke urine in abundance, whereby also the gravel and stone may be voided.
The young and tender leaves break the stone, and expel gravel both from the kidneys and bladder.
These are accounted to be of as singular force as any herb or seed whatsoever, to break the stone and to void it, and the gravel either in the reins or bladder, as also to provoke urine being stopped, and to help stranguary.
It provokes urine, expels gravel in the reins or kidneys;
This, in physical operations, is to open obstructions of the liver and spleen, to cleanse the blood, to loosen the belly, to cleanse the reins from gravel, and provoke urine.
and is powerful by urine to expel the gravel or stone in the kidneys and bladder, a dram of the powder of the herb being taken in wine for many days together.
It also provokes urine, and helps to break the stone, and expel the gravel from the kidneys;
It is good against the gravel and stone in the kidneys, and the stranguary.
The same also, or the seed provokes urine, and expels the gravel and stone in the reins or bladder, often proved to be effectual in many that have taken it.
it would bring away gravel from the kidneys insensibly, and without pain.
Three ounces of the juice thereof taken at a time, doth wonderfully help stopping of the urine, and to expel the stone or gravel in the kidneys or bladder, and is therefore usually put among other herbs used in clysters to mitigate pains in the back, sides, or bowels, proceeding of wind, stopping of urine, the gravel or stone, as aforesaid.
It provokes urine, and helps to expel the stone and gravel out of the kidneys and bladder, and helps much in all inward pains and ulcers.
it expelleth the gravel and stone out of the kidneys, and helpeth pains in the reins.
yet for such as are troubled with the gravel, stone, or stoppage of urine, they are good physic, if the body be strong that takes them;
It doth also most assuredly help those that have the stranguary, or are troubled with the stone or gravel in the reins or bladder.
provokes urine, and helps thereby to wash away the gravel and stone engendered in the kidneys or bladder.
Some make great boast thereof, that it is diuretical to provoke urine, and thereby to expel gravel and the stone in the reins or kidneys, and do also account it singularly good to void hydropical waters:
The decoction of the roots is taken to help the jaundice, and to expel the gravel and the stone in the reins or kidneys.
Pliny saith, That it hath caused the gravel and stone to be voided by urine, and that the eating thereof helps a stinking breath.
Either the decoction of the powder or of the root taken, is good to break or drive forth gravel and the stone in the reins and kidneys.
mends the colour in the face, sharpens the eye-sight, provokes appetite, and helps to break and expel the stone, and dissolved, the water thereof is much used to break the stone, and to expel gravel and wind.
It is very effectual to cleanse the reins and bladder, and to dissolve the stone engendered in them, and to expel it and the gravel by urine;
A decoction made with the flowers thereof hath been found effectual against the jaundice, as also to provoke urine, and cleanse the kidneys from gravel or stone ingendered in them.
helps the cough, wheezings, and shortness of breath, and all the defects of the reins and bladder, expelling the gravel and stone.
They are excellent for the stone and gravel, especially the nuts, being dried.
it is good also to expel the stone and gravel out of the reins, kidneys and bladder, helping to dissolve the stone, and voiding it by grit or gravel sent forth in the urine;
This is profitable to provoke urine, to help stranguary, and expel gravel and stone.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850