Lungs — (inflammation of)

CND-0087Chest and breathing

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Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (inflammation of)” under “Lungs” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Lungs — (inflammation of)”.

Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.

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.

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

1. Garden-Rue Ruta graveolensCLM-0023631850 index, pp. 159, 244

   The same being drank, helps the pains both of the chest and sides, as also coughs and hardness of breathing, the inflammations of the lungs, and the tormenting pains of the sciatica and the joints, being anointed, or laid to the places;

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2. Heart’s-Ease Viola tricolorCLM-0023641850 index, p. 88 Not in 1652

   The spirit of it is excellently good for the convulsions in children, as also for the falling sickness, and a gallant remedy for the inflammation of the lungs and breasts, pleurisy, scabs, itch, &c.

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Source

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