Sleep (Culpeper says it harms)

CND-0120Head, mind and nerves

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A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Sleep, (to procure)”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.

Modern reading: sleep. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with sleep OR insomnia OR sedative OR hypnotic. 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.

This heading is ours. A keyword search had filed these under “Sleep (to procure)”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant harms it. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.

1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Cives Allium schoenoprasumCLM-001542 Not in 1652

   If they be eaten raw, (I do not mean raw, opposite to roasted or boiled, but raw, opposite to chymical preparation) they send up very hurtful vapours to the brain, causing troublesome sleep, and spoiling the eye-sight, yet of them prepared by the art of the alchymist, may be made an excellent remedy for the stoppage of the urine.

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Source

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