Pain in the Stomach

CND-0103Stomach and bowels

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

Modern reading: gut pain. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with "abdominal pain" OR gastritis OR analgesic OR "stomach pain". 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: 4 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Rosemary Salvia rosmarinusCLM-001342
    It is a remedy for the windiness in the stomach, bowels, and spleen, and expels it powerfully.
    QUO-000264Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Rupture-Wort Herniaria glabraCLM-0023871850 index, p. 160
    The same also helps stitches in the sides, griping pains of the stomach or belly, the obstructions of the liver, and cures the yellow jaundice;
    QUO-000779Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Spignel, Or Spikenard Meum athamanticumCLM-0023881850 index, p. 174
    The roots boiled in wine or water, and drank, helps the stranguary and stoppings of the urine, the wind, swellings and pains in the stomach, pains of the mother, and all joint-aches.
    QUO-001084Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. The Black Thorn, Or Sloe-Bush Prunus spinosaCLM-0023891850 index, pp. 182, 273
    But the distilled water of the flower first steeped in sack for a night, and drawn therefrom by the heat of Balneum and Anglico, a bath, is a most certain remedy, tried and approved, to ease all manner of gnawings in the stomach, the sides and bowels, or any griping pains in any of them, to drink a small quantity when the extremity of pain is upon them.
    QUO-001441Papers 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