Shingles

CND-0117Fevers and infections

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

Modern reading: shingles. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with "herpes zoster" OR shingles OR "varicella zoster" OR antiviral. 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. Cinquefoil, Or Five-Leaved Grass; Called In Some Counties Five-Fingered Grass Potentilla reptansCLM-001505
    as also inflammations, and St. Anthony’s fire, all imposthumes, and painful sores with heat and putrefaction, the shingles also, and all other sorts of running and foul scabs, sores and itch.
    QUO-000063Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Cow Parsnips Heracleum sphondyliumCLM-001508
    It helps also the running scab and shingles.
    QUO-001022Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Houseleek Or Sengreen Sempervivum tectorumCLM-001506
    It cools and restrains all other hot inflammations, St. Anthony’s fire, scaldings and burnings, the shingles, fretting ulcers, cankers, tettors, ringworms, and the like;
    QUO-000070Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Nightshade Solanum nigrumCLM-001507
    It also doth much good for the shingles, ringworms, and in all running, fretting and corroding ulcers, applied thereunto.
    QUO-001021Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Plantain Plantago majorCLM-0015091850 index
    One part of Plantain water, and two parts of the brine of powdered beef, boiled together and clarified, is a most sure remedy to heal all spreading scabs or itch in the head and body, all manner of tetters, ringworms, the shingles, and all other running and fretting sores.
    QUO-001023Papers 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