Sore Eyes

CND-0124Head, mind and nerves

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Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— Eyes” under “Sore Breasts” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Sore Eyes”.

Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.

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.

4 claims: 3 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

1. Buck’s-Horn Plantain Plantago coronopusCLM-0024071850 index, p. 33

   The herb boiled in ale and wine, and given for some mornings and evenings together, stays the distillation of hot and sharp rheums falling into the eyes from the head, and helps all sorts of sore eyes.

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2. Celandine Chelidonium majusCLM-0024091850 index, p. 42

   let Leo arise, then may you make into an oil or ointment, which you please, to anoint your sore eyes with.

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3. Loosestrife Or Willow-Herb Lysimachia vulgarisCLM-0024101850 index, p. 108

   Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

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4. Succory, Or Chicory Cichorium intybusCLM-0024081850 index, p. 176

   The said water is very effectual for sore eyes that are inflamed with redness, for nurses’ breasts that are pained by the abundance of milk.

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Source

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