Lungs (Culpeper says it harms)

CND-0086Chest and breathing

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

Modern reading: lungs. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with lung OR pulmonary OR respiratory OR bronchitis. 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 “Lungs”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant harms it. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.

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

1. Lettuce Lactuca sativaCLM-001264

   but the use of Lettuce is chiefly forbidden to those that are short-winded, or have any imperfection in the lungs, or spit blood.

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Source

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