CND-0113Wounds, bruises and sores
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They are often used by many to good purpose for wounds, both green and old, to consolidate or knit ruptures;
and it wonderfully helps the ruptures, being taken inwardly, and outwardly applied to the place.
It is also very available against ruptures, or burstings, or all bruises from falls, dissolving the congealed blood, and easing the pains that happen thereupon;
The roots are likewise effectual to help ruptures or bursting, being used with other things available to that purpose, taken either inwardly or outwardly, or both;
A syrup made of the juice of it, is inferior to none for inward wounds, ruptures of veins, bloody flux, vessels broken, spitting, urining, or vomiting blood:
and is special good for ruptures and broken bones;
Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.
the same is excellently good for ruptures, as also to stop fluxes;
they are also used for ruptures, and other inward burnings, with very good success.
The powder or decoction of the herb taken for some time together, is found by experience to be singularly good for ruptures and burstings in people, either young or old.
Also they say it breaks the stone, and helps ruptures most certainly:
and is no less prevalent in all ruptures or burstings, being drank inwardly, and outwardly applied.
It cures all ruptures in children.
They are admirably good for a cough, shortness of breath, and consumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions.
it is good for those that are bruised by any fall, blows or otherwise, and is profitable for those that are bursten, and have ruptures, by drinking the decoction of the herb and roots in wine, and applying the same outwardly to the place.
as also for broken joints and ruptures.
Ladies’ Mantle is very proper for those wounds that have inflammations, and is very effectual to stay bleeding, vomitings, fluxes of all sorts, bruises by falls or otherwise, and helps ruptures;
It is profitably taken by them that are troubled with ruptures, cramps, or convulsions of the sinews;
It is good for ruptures, but is chiefly used, by most with other herbs, to make oils or balsams to heal fresh or green wounds (as I said before) either inward or outward, for which it is excellently good.
The same also is singularly good for ruptures or burstings.
it helps also ruptures and burstenness.
as also for ruptures or burstings.
for it is found by experience to cure the rupture, not only in children but also in elder persons, if the disease be not too inveterate, by taking a dram of the powder of the dried herb every day in wine, or a decoction made and drank for certain days together.
The same also is no less powerful to help any ruptures or burstings, used both inwardly and outwardly:
It is no less effectual to help ruptures and burstings, the decoction in wine, or the powder in broth or drink, being inwardly taken, and outwardly applied to the place.
and if cloaths be often wet therein, and applied to the ruptures of children, it heals them, if they be well bound up with a truss.
The decoction of the herb, or powder of the dried herb, taken inwardly, and the same, or the leaves bruised, and applied outwardly, is singularly good for all ruptures and burstings, especially in children before they be too old.
It is very powerful in ruptures and burstings, as also for bruises and falls, to be used as well outwardly as inwardly.
Wafers put in water, and drank, stays the lask and bloody flux, and are profitably used both inwardly and outwardly for the ruptures in children.
It provokes urine and the terms, and eases the griping pain of the belly, cramps, ruptures, and inflamation of the liver.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850