Miscarriage (good against)

CND-0097Women and childbirth

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Historical label: “Miscarriage, (good against)” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”. Shown as “Miscarriage (good against)”.

Modern reading: miscarriage. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with miscarriage OR "abortion, spontaneous" OR pregnancy. 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.

4 claims: 3 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

1. Bistort, Or Snakeweed Bistorta officinalisCLM-001339

   The decoction of the root in wine being drank, hinders abortion or miscarriage in child-bearing.

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2. Garden Tansy Tanacetum vulgareCLM-0013411850 index

   This herb bruised and applied to the navel, stays miscarriages;

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3. Ladies’ Mantle Alchemilla vulgarisCLM-0023751850 index, p. 103

   Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

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4. The Medlar Mespilus germanicaCLM-001340

   Also a plaister made of the fruit dried before they are rotten, and other convenient things, and applied to the reins of the back, stops miscarriage in women with child.

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Source

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