Scurvy

CND-0116Swelling, pain and the whole body

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

Modern reading: scurvy. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with scurvy OR "ascorbic acid" OR "vitamin C". 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.

8 claims: 8 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Brook Lime, Or Water-Pimpernel Veronica beccabungaCLM-001482
    Brook-lime and Water-Cresses are generally used together in diet-drink, with other things serving to purge the blood and body from all ill humours that would destroy health, and are helpful to the scurvy.
    QUO-000115Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Juniper Bush Juniperus communisCLM-001484 Not in 1652
    The ashes of the wood is a speedy remedy to such as have the scurvy, to rub their gums with.
    QUO-001010Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Ladies-Smock, Or Cuckow-Flower Cardamine pratensisCLM-0014851850 index Not in 1652
    they are excellently good for the scurvy, they provoke urine, and break the stone, and excellently warm a cold and weak stomach, restoring lost appetite, and help digestion.
    QUO-000087Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Raddish, Or Horse-Raddish Raphanus sativusCLM-001487
    The juice of Horse-raddish given to drink, is held to be very effectual for the scurvy.
    QUO-001011Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Scurvygrass Cochlearia officinalisCLM-0014891850 index
    but the Dutch Scurvygrass is of better effect, and chiefly used (if it may be had) by those that have the scurvy, and is of singular good effect to cleanse the blood, liver, and spleen, taking the juice in the Spring every morning fasting in a cup of drink.
    QUO-000168Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. Water Cresses Nasturtium officinaleCLM-0014831850 index
    They are more powerful against the scurvy, and to cleanse the blood and humours, than Brooklime is, and serve in all the other uses in which Brooklime is available, as to break the stone, and provoke urine and woman’s courses.
    QUO-000129Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. Wind Marjoram Origanum vulgareCLM-001486 Not in 1652
    It provokes urine and the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice.
    QUO-000549Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. Winter-Rocket, Or Cresses Barbarea vulgarisCLM-0014881850 index
    It is good for the scurvy, and found by experience to be a singularly good wound herb to cleanse inward wounds;
    QUO-001012Papers 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