CND-0075Fevers and infections
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the herb also bruised, and with some salt and vinegar and hog’s-grease, laid upon a hard tumour or swelling, or that vulgarly called the king’s evil, do help to dissolve or discuss them;
The decoction of either leaves or roots being drank, and the decoction of leaves applied to the place, is excellent good for the king’s evil that is broken and runs;
The herb bruised and applied to the place grieved with the king’s evil, helps it in nine or ten days effectually.
The roots bruised and applied outwardly, help the kernels of the throat, commonly called the king’s evil;
therefore a better remedy cannot be for the king’s evil, because the Moon that rules the disease, is exalted there.
It has been found by experience to be available for the king’s evil, the herb bruised and applied, or an ointment made with the juice thereof, and so used;
the same is excellently good to be taken inwardly for the king’s evil.
The root thereof helps the ruggedness of the nails, and being boiled in wine helps the swelling of the throat, commonly called the king’s evil, as also the swellings of the kernels of the ears.
It is no less effectual to give ease to the pains of the gout, the sciatica, and helps the kernels or knots in the neck or throat, called the king’s evil:
This water, gargled warm in the mouth, and sometimes drank also, doth cure the quinsy, or king’s evil in the throat.
and boiled in white wine, for the imposthumes by the throat, commonly called the king’s evil, and of those kernels that rise behind the ears, and inflammations or swellings in women’s breasts.
The juice laid on warm, helps the king’s evil, or kernels in the throat.
as also, being bruised and applied to the place, to heal the king’s evil.
as also the quinsy, and the king’s evil.
also helps the king’s evil, being applied to the place.
yea, even the swellings of the throat called the king’s evil;
Being bruised and applied to the place, it helps the king’s evil, and any other knots or kernels in the flesh;
It is certain by good experience, that the decoction of the leaves and roots wonderfully helps piles and hæmorrhoids, also kernels by the ears and throat, called the king’s evil, or any other hard wens or tumours.
The juice or powder of the root put in ointments, plaisters, and such things that are to be applied to wounds or sores, is very effectual, as the juice of the leaves and the root bruised and applied to the throat or jaws, heals the king’s evil, and eases the pain of the sciatica;
It is excellently good for the rankness of the gums, a safe and present remedy for the king’s evil.
Hot bread applied for an hour, at times, for three days together, perfectly heals the kernels in the throat, commonly called the king’s evil.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850