Polypus

CND-0108Mouth and throat

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Historical label: “Polypus” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.

Modern reading: polyps. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with polyp OR "nasal polyp" OR polyps. 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. Cuckow-Point Arum maculatumCLM-001428

   and heals the stinking sores in the nose, called Polypus.

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2. Dragons Dracunculus vulgarisCLM-001429 Not in 1652

   it consumes cankers, and that flesh growing in the nostrils, which they call Polypus:

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3. Nettles Urtica dioicaCLM-001430

   The seed or leaves bruised, and put into the nostrils, stays the bleeding of them, and takes away the flesh growing in them called polypus.

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4. Polypody Of The Oak Polypodium vulgareCLM-0014311850 index

   and applied also to the nose, cures the disease called Polypus, which is a piece of flesh growing therein, which in time stops the passage of breath through that nostril;

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Source

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