Lethargy (to rouse from)

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A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Sleep, (to procure)”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.

Modern reading: drowsiness and lethargy. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with lethargy OR somnolence OR drowsiness OR hypersomnia OR wakefulness OR arousal. 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.

This heading is ours. Culpeper says this plant rouses people who have fallen into a deep sleep or the lethargy; a keyword search had filed it under “Sleep (to procure)”.

1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Cow Parsnips Heracleum sphondyliumCLM-001549

   The seed hereof being drank, cleanses the belly from tough phlegmatic matter therein, eases them that are liver-grown, women’s passions of the mother, as well being drank as the smoke thereof received, and likewise raises such as are fallen into a deep sleep, or have the lethargy, by burning it under their nose.

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Source

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