Rickets

CND-0111Swelling, pain and the whole body

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

Modern reading: rickets. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with rickets OR "vitamin D" OR "bone mineral" OR osteomalacia. 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: 2 with a sentence, 2 from the index alone

Down, Or Cotton-Thistle Onopordum acanthiumCLM-001448
whereby they cannot turn their neck but their whole body must turn also (sure they do not mean those that have got a crick in their neck by being under the hangman’s hand.) Galen saith, that the root and leaves hereof are of a healing quality, and good for such persons as have their bodies drawn together by some spasm or convulsion, as it is with children that have the rickets.
QUO-000444Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
Fern Dryopteris filix-masCLM-0023961850 index, p. 222
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
Syrup Hart’s-TongueCLM-0023971850 index, pp. 304, 309
Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.
Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
The Woollen, Or, Cotton Thistle Lophiolepis eriophoraCLM-001449
as the rickets (or as the college of physicians would have it, Rachites, about which name they have quarrelled sufficiently) in children, being a disease that hinders their growth, by binding their nerves, ligaments, and whole structure of their body.
QUO-000987Papers 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