Sleep (to procure)

CND-0121Head, mind and nerves

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Historical label: “Sleep, (to procure)” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”. Shown as “Sleep (to procure)”.

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.

14 claims: 14 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Dandelion, Vulgarly Called Piss-A-Beds Taraxacum officinaleCLM-001543

   It helps also to procure rest and sleep to bodies distempered by the heat of ague fits, or otherwise:

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2. Flower-De-Luce Iris germanicaCLM-001544

   It much eases pains in the head, and procures sleep;

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3. Hawk-Weed HieraciumCLM-001545

   it procures rest and sleep, hinders venery and venerous dreams, cooling heats, purges the stomach, increases blood, and helps the diseases of the reins and bladder.

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4. Henbane Hyoscyamus nigerCLM-001546

   And applied with vinegar to the forehead and temples, helps the head-ache and want of sleep in hot fevers.

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5. Houseleek Or Sengreen Sempervivum tectorumCLM-001547

   It eases also the head-ache, and distempered heat of the brain in frenzies, or through want of sleep, being applied to the temples and forehead.

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6. Lettuce Lactuca sativaCLM-0015481850 index

   The juice of Lettuce mixed or boiled with Oil of Roses, applied to the forehead and temples procures sleep, and eases the headache proceeding of an hot cause:

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7. Male And Female Peony PaeoniaCLM-001551

   The black seed also taken before bed-time, and in the morning, is very effectual for such as in their sleep are troubled with the disease called Ephialtes, or Incubus, but we do commonly call it the Night-mare:

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8. Polypody Of The Oak Polypodium vulgareCLM-001552

   The distilled water both of roots and leaves, is much commended for the quartan ague, to be taken for many days together, as also against melancholy, or fearful and troublesome sleeps or dreams;

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9. Poppy PapaverCLM-0015531850 index

   The garden Poppy heads with seeds made into a syrup, is frequently, and to good effect used to procure rest, and sleep, in the sick and weak, and to stay catarrhs and defluxions of thin rheums from the head into the stomach and lungs, causing a continual cough, the fore-runner of a consumption;

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10. Purslain Portulaca oleraceaCLM-001554

    It stays hot and choleric fluxes of the belly, women’s courses, the whites, and gonorrhæa, or running of the reins, the distillation from the head, and pains therein proceeding from heat, want of sleep, or the frenzy.

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11. Roses RosaCLM-001555

    They mitigate the pains that arise from heat, assuage inflammations, procure rest and sleep, stay both whites and reds in women, the gonorrhea, or running of the reins, and fluxes of the belly:

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12. Rushes JuncusCLM-001556

    it provokes sleep likewise, but must be given with caution.

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13. The Peach Tree Prunus persicaCLM-001550

    The milk or cream of these kernels being drawn forth with some Vervain water and applied to the forehead and temples, doth much help to procure rest and sleep to sick persons wanting it.

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14. Violets Viola odorataCLM-001557

    it likewise eases pains in the head, caused through want of sleep;

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Source

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