Liver (Culpeper says it harms)

CND-0080Liver and jaundice

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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 “Liver”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.

Modern reading: liver. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with liver OR hepatoprotective OR hepatic OR hepatotoxicity. 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. A keyword search had filed these under “Liver”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant harms it. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.

2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Briony, Or Wild Vine Bryonia dioicaCLM-001164

   The root of Briony purges the belly with great violence, troubling the stomach and burning the liver, and therefore not rashly to be taken;

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2. Broom, And Broom-Rape Cytisus scopariusCLM-001165

   As for the Broom and Broom-rape, Mars owns them, and is exceeding prejudicial to the liver, I suppose by reason of the antipathy between Jupiter and Mars;

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Source

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