CND-0073Liver and jaundice
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It opens and cleanses the liver, helps the jaundice, and is very beneficial to the bowels, healing all inward wounds, bruises, hurts, and other distempers.
helps the yellow jaundice, by opening the stoppings of the gall and liver, and melancholy, by opening the stoppings of the spleen;
It helps the yellow jaundice, spleen, and gravel in the kidneys.
and let it infuse hot over a gentle fire twelve hours, then strain it out, so have you a most excellent drink to open obstructions of the liver and spleen, to help difficulty of breath, bruises and falls, and congealed blood in any part of the body, it helps the yellow jaundice, the dropsy, and black jaundice, and to cleanse women newly brought to bed.
being boiled in whey, it wonderfully helps the obstructions of the liver and spleen, and therefore profitable for the dropsy and jaundice;
The decoction of the leaves in white wine helps to break the stone, and expel it, and cures the jaundice.
The inner rind of the Barberry-tree boiled in white wine, and a quarter of a pint drank each morning, is an excellent remedy to cleanse the body of choleric humours, and free it from such diseases as choler causes, such as scabs, itch, tetters, ringworms, yellow jaundice, boils, &c.
The red Beet is good to stay the bloody-flux, women’s courses, and the whites, and to help the yellow jaundice;
it also helps the jaundice.
so you have an excellent remedy by you, not only for the premises, but also for the cough, yellow jaundice and sciatica.
it helps the falling sickness, the leprosy, both the yellow and black jaundice, the gout, sciatica, and convulsions;
The juice made into a syrup prevails much to all the purposes aforesaid, and is put, with other cooling, opening and cleansing herbs to open obstructions, and help the yellow jaundice, and mixed with Fumitory, to cool, cleanse, and temper the blood thereby;
The continual use of the powder of the leaves and seed doth cure the black jaundice.
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;
it also helps the yellow-jaundice, and stays vomiting, being taken in wine.
Syrup made of the juice of Camomile, with the flowers, in white wine, is a remedy against the jaundice and dropsy.
It is an excellent remedy against the yellow jaundice and other infirmities of the gall, because Mars governs choler.
The herb or root boiled in white Wine and drank, a few Anniseeds being boiled therewith, opens obstructions of the liver and gall, helps the yellow jaundice;
The juice hereof drank, about four ounces at a time, for certain days together, cures the quinsey and yellow jaundice;
The distilled water drank twice a day, helps the yellow jaundice, and the decoction of the herb, in experience, is found to do the same, and stays lasks and bloody-fluxes.
Tragus saith, that a dram of the seed taken in wine with a little saffron, opens obstructions of the liver, and is good for the yellow jaundice, if the party after the taking thereof be laid to sweat well in bed.
The seed thereof, as Galen saith, is of a sharp and cutting quality, and therefore is a fit medicine for a cough and shortness of breath, the falling sickness and jaundice.
It is of an opening and cleansing quality, and therefore very effectual for the obstructions of the liver, gall and spleen, and the diseases that arise from them, as the jaundice and hypocondriac;
it opens obstructions of the gall, whereby it profits them that have the jaundice;
Matthiolus saith, that both the seed of the male and female Mercury boiled with Wormwood and drank, cures the yellow jaundice in a speedy manner.
The decoction of the root hereof in wine, is very effectual to open obstructions of the spleen and liver, and helps yellow jaundice, dropsy, pains of the loins, and wind cholic, provokes urine, and expels the stone, procures women’s courses.
The seed and the roots much more, help to open obstructions of the liver, spleen, and gall, and thereby help the painful and windy swellings of the spleen, and the yellow jaundice;
The decoction of the herb, both leaves and flowers, in wine, taken and drank, doth somewhat move the belly downwards, opens obstructions of the liver, and helps the yellow jaundice;
it helps the jaundice and the dropsy, evacuating those humours both upwards and downwards;
It is also good against the yellow-jaundice, and spends it by urine, which it procures in abundance.
the decoction of it, besides, is an excellent remedy for the yellow jaundice.
It is also held good in hydropick diseases, the jaundice, falling sickness, cramps, convulsions, the piles or hæmorrhoids, or other cold diseases.
It helps agues of all sorts, and the yellow jaundice, as also the bots in cattle;
A dram of the seed taken in powder purges by urine, and is good against the yellow jaundice.
and being drank, heals the jaundice.
The pills also, continued for some time, are special good for those that have the dropsy, jaundice, and for griping pains of the joints, belly, or inward parts.
It is good against the jaundice and falling sickness, being taken in wine;
The Dutch make an emulsion out of the seed, and give it with good success to those that have the jaundice, especially in the beginning of the disease, if there be no ague accompanying it, for it opens obstructions of the gall, and causes digestion of choler.
A syrup made of the juice and sugar, cures the yellow jaundice, eases the head-ache that comes of heat, and tempers the heat of the liver and stomach, and is profitably given in long and hot agues that rise in choler and blood.
The juice thereof with wine and honey, helps to clear the eyesight, and snuffed up into the nostrils, purges away the yellow-jaundice, and with a little oil of roses dropped into the ears, eases the pains of them.
It amends and cherishes the native colour of the body, spoiled by the yellow jaundice;
Pliny saith, the yellow berries are good against the jaundice;
It is a singularly good herb for all the diseases of the liver, both to cool and cleanse it, and helps the inflammations in any part, and the yellow jaundice likewise.
It is a sure remedy for the yellow jaundice, by opening the obstructions of the liver and gall, and cleansing those parts;
In Italy it is good against the plague, and in Saxony against the jaundice, as _Camerarius_ saith.
The juice thereof taken in wine, or the decoction thereof drank, doth help the jaundice, although of long continuance, to drink thereof morning and evening, and abstain from other drink two or three hours after.
as also to open the obstructions of the liver and spleen, and thereby is good against the jaundice.
Tragus sets down an excellent medicine to help the jaundice and falling sickness, the dropsy, and stone in the kidneys, in this manner:
Matthiolus saith, The decoction thereof being drank, helps the jaundice and dropsy, all pains of the head and sinews that come of a cold cause, and clears the eye-sight.
The herb (but especially the seed) is held to be profitable against the dropsy, the falling-sickness, the yellow jaundice, and stoppings of the liver and reins.
Both Dioscorides and Galen say, That if a decoction be made thereof with water, and they that have the yellow jaundice exercise their bodies directly after the taking thereof, it will certainly cure them.
It purges choler without trouble, it is good in hot fevers, and pains of the head arising from hot choleric humours, and heat in the eyes, the jaundice also, and joint-aches proceeding of hot humours.
The same also helps stitches in the sides, griping pains of the stomach or belly, the obstructions of the liver, and cures the yellow jaundice;
It is a notable expulsive medicine, and a notable remedy for the yellow jaundice.
whereby it is good for the yellow jaundice and for the dropsy in the beginning of it;
being bound to the wrists of the hands, and the soles of the feet, it helps the yellow jaundice.
It provokes urine and women’s courses, and is singularly good against the yellow jaundice, tertian and quartan agues, if the juice thereof be taken, but especially made up into a syrup.
The decoction of the roots is taken to help the jaundice, and to expel the gravel and the stone in the reins or kidneys.
It helps the stranguary, and wasteth the stone in the bladder, and is good against the yellow jaundice and the hiccough;
The water of the Berries carefully distilled, is a sovereign remedy and cordial in the panting and beating of the heart, and is good for the yellow jaundice.
helps the yellow jaundice, the heat of the reins, and of the urine;
the bark of the root is less sharp and hot, but more bitter, and hath some astriction withal whereby it is effectual to break the stone, and good to open obstructions of the liver, spleen, and other inward parts, which bring the jaundice, dropsy, &c.
If the bark hereof be boiled with Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, Hops, and some Fennel, with Smallage, Endive, and Succory-roots, and a reasonable draught taken every morning for some time together, it is very effectual against the jaundice, dropsy, and the evil disposition of the body, especially if some suitable purging medicines have been taken before, to void the grosser excrements:
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.
The same is also profitable for those that have the jaundice, pleurisy, pains in the back and loins, and for torments in the belly, or cholic, being also used in clysters.
it opens obstructions of the liver, gall, and spleen, helps the jaundice, and eases the pains in the sides and hardness of the spleen, used outwardly, and is given with very good effect in agues.
Lady Venus owns this tree, and by it opposes the ill effects of Mars, and indeed for children and young people, nothing is better to purge choler and the jaundice, than the leaves or flowers of this tree being made into a syrup or conserve.
The root, leaves, young branches, or bark boiled in wine, and drank, stays the bleeding of the hæmorrhodical veins, the spitting of blood, the too abounding of women’s courses, the jaundice, the cholic, and the biting of all venomous serpents, except the asp;
and the juice wonderfully opens obstructions of the liver and lungs, and thereby helps the yellow jaundice.
It helps the yellow jaundice, the dropsy and the gout;
It is good also for the liver and the jaundice, and all hot agues, to cool the heat, and quench the thirst;
The decoction of the herb Maiden-Hair being drank, helps those that are troubled with the cough, shortness of breath, the yellow jaundice, diseases of the spleen, stopping of urine, and helps exceedingly to break the stone in the kidneys, (in all which diseases the Wall Rue is also very effectual.) It provokes women’s courses, and stays both bleedings and fluxes of the stomach and belly, especially when the herb is dry;
It helps the cachexia or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy and yellow-jaundice.
It provokes urine and the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice.
taken any of the aforesaid ways, it helps the jaundice, falling sickness, the palsy, convulsions, or shrinking of the sinews, the gout and those that are inclined to dropsy, those that have continual pains in their heads, although it turn to phrensy.
The sun never shone upon a better herb for the yellow jaundice than this;
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850