Indigestion

CND-0067Stomach and bowels

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

Modern reading: indigestion. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with dyspepsia OR indigestion OR digestive. 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.

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

1. Avens, Called Also Colewort, And Herb Bonet Geum urbanumCLM-0008781850 index

   It helps indigestion, and warms a cold stomach, and opens obstructions of the liver and spleen.

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2. Ragwort Jacobaea vulgarisCLM-0023411850 index, p. 149

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

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3. Samphire Crithmum maritimumCLM-0023421850 index, pp. 164, 319, 374

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

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Source

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