Itch

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Historical label: “Itch” 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. Celandine Chelidonium majusCLM-0023461850 index, p. 42
    and often using it, helps the dropsy and the itch, and those who have old sores in their legs, or other parts of the body.
    QUO-000536Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Juniper Bush Juniperus communisCLM-0023481850 index, p. 100 Not in 1652
    A lye made of the ashes of the wood, and the body bathed with it, cures the itch, scabs and leprosy.
    QUO-000819Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Stinking Gladwin Iris foetidissimaCLM-0023471850 index, p. 84
    the juice of the leaves or roots heals the itch, and all running or spreading scabs, sores, blemishes, or scars in the skin, wheresoever they be.
    QUO-001432Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. The Black Alder-Tree Frangula alnusCLM-0023451850 index, p. 6
    The inner bark thereof boiled in vinegar is an approved remedy to kill lice, to cure the itch, and take away scabs, by drying them up in a short time.
    QUO-001431Papers 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