Ring-worm

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

Modern reading: ringworm. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with dermatophyte OR antifungal OR tinea OR ringworm. 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.

5 claims: 5 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Barberry Berberis vulgarisCLM-0023991850 index, p. 16

   The inner rind of the Barberry-tree boiled in white wine, and a quarter of a pint drank each morning, is an excellent remedy to cleanse the body of choleric humours, and free it from such diseases as choler causes, such as scabs, itch, tetters, ringworms, yellow jaundice, boils, &c.

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2. Carduus Benedictus Centaurea benedictaCLM-001450

   The continual drinking the decoction of it, helps red faces, tetters, and ring-worms, because Mars causes them.

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3. Celandine Chelidonium majusCLM-0014511850 index

   The juice often applied to tetters, ring-worms, or other such like spreading cankers, will quickly heal them, and rubbed often upon warts, will take them away.

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4. Savine Juniperus sabinaCLM-0023981850 index, p. 166 Not in 1652

   Being spread over a piece of leather, and applied to the navel, kills the worms in the belly, helps scabs and itch, running sores, cankers, tetters, and ringworms;

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5. Wheat Triticum aestivumCLM-001452

   The oil pressed from wheat, between two thick plates of iron, or copper heated, heals all tetters and ring-worms, being used warm;

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Source

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