Hoarseness

CND-0065Mouth and throat

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

Modern reading: hoarseness and sore throat. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with hoarseness OR laryngitis OR dysphonia OR pharyngitis OR "sore throat". 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.

16 claims: 15 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

1. Cabbages And Coleworts Brassica oleraceaCLM-000834

   Being taken with honey, it recovers hoarseness, or loss of the voice.

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2. Cinquefoil, Or Five-Leaved Grass; Called In Some Counties Five-Fingered Grass Potentilla reptansCLM-000836

   The juice or decoction taken with a little honey, helps the hoarseness of the throat, and is very good for the cough of the lungs.

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3. Filipendula, Or Drop-Wort Filipendula vulgarisCLM-000837

   and is also very effectual for all the diseases of the lungs, as shortness of breath, wheezing, hoarseness of the throat, and the cough;

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4. Flea-Wort Plantago afraCLM-000839

   It helps also hoarseness of the voice, and diseases of the breast and lungs, caused by heat, or sharp salt humours, and the pleurisy also.

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5. Liquorice Glycyrrhiza glabraCLM-0008401850 index

   Liquorice boiled in fair water, with some Maiden-hair and figs, makes a good drink for those that have a dry cough or hoarseness, wheezing or shortness of breath, and for all the griefs of the breast and lungs, phthisic or consumptions caused by the distillation of salt humours on them.

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6. Mallows And Marshmallows Malva sylvestrisCLM-000841

   But the roots are of more special use for those purposes, as well for coughs, hoarseness, shortness of breath and wheezings, being boiled in wine, or honeyed water, and drank.

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7. Plums Prunus domesticaCLM-000843

   Matthiolus saith, The oil preserved out of the kernels of the stones, as oil of almonds is made, is good against the inflamed piles, the tumours or swellings of ulcers, hoarseness of the voice, roughness of the tongue and throat, and likewise the pains in the ears.

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8. Poppy PapaverCLM-000844

   it helps also hoarseness of the throat, and when one have lost their voice, which the oil of the seed doth likewise.

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9. Sage Salvia officinalisCLM-000846

   The juice of Sage taken in warm water, helps a hoarseness and a cough.

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10. The Cherry-Tree Prunus cerasusCLM-000835

    The gum of the Cherry-tree, desolved in wine is good for a cold, cough, and hoarseness of the throat;

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11. The Fig-Tree Ficus caricaCLM-0008381850 index Not in 1652

    A syrup made of the leaves, or green fruit, is excellently good for coughs, hoarseness, or shortness of breath, and all diseases of the breast and lungs;

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12. The Hedge-Mustard Sisymbrium officinaleCLM-000842

    It is singularly good in all the diseases of the chest and lungs, hoarseness of voice:

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13. The Peach Tree Prunus persicaCLM-0023401850 index, p. 133

    Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

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14. The Quince Tree Cydonia oblongaCLM-000845

    The same, with a little sugar, is good to lenify the harshness and hoarseness of the throat, and roughness of the tongue.

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15. Violets Viola odorataCLM-000847

    The herb or flowers, while they are fresh, or the flowers when they are dry, are effectual in the pleurisy, and all diseases of the lungs, to lenify the sharpness in hot rheums, and the hoarseness of the throat, the heat also and sharpness of urine, and all the pains of the back or reins, and bladder.

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16. Wheat Triticum aestivumCLM-000848

    and boiled with mint and butter, it helps the hoarseness of the throat.

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Source

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