CND-0084Stomach and bowels
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.
The husk boiled in water to the consumption of a third part thereof, stays a lask;
bloody urine or the bloody-flux, and stops the lask of the belly and bowels.
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
The seeds fried, and taken, stays the flux or lask of the belly, and the corrosions that come by reason of hot choleric, or sharp and malignant humours, or by too much purging of any violent medicine, as Scammony, or the like.
The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the cholic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels, and stays bleeding at the mouth, nose, or other places, some of the leaves being fried with the blood of them that bleed, and so given them to eat.
It helps also other fluxes of humours in the bowels, and the immoderate courses of women.
and being mixed with the powder of mastich, is very good for the gonorrhea, and for the looseness of the humours in the body.
the lask of the belly or stomach, or the bloody flux, the too much abounding of women’s courses, and helps to ease the pains of the sides, and bowels, that come by overmuch scouring, to drink the decoction of the bark of the roots, or more usually the decoction of the berries, either fresh or dried.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850