Milk (to increase in Nurses)

CND-0096Women and childbirth

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Historical label: “Milk, (to increase in Nurses)” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”. Shown as “Milk (to increase in Nurses)”.

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. Fennel Foeniculum vulgareCLM-0023731850 index, p. 237
    The leaves or seed, boiled in barley water and drank are good for nurses, to increase their milk, and make it more wholesome for the child.
    QUO-001433Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Viper’s Bugloss Echium vulgareCLM-0023741850 index, pp. 221, 250
    The seed drank in wine, procures abundance of milk in women’s breasts.
    QUO-001434Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

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