Stings and Venomous Bites

CND-0129Wounds, bruises and sores

Open in the Concordance

Historical label: “Stings and Venomous Bites” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.

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.

5 claims: 5 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Eringo, Or Sea-Holly Eryngium maritimumCLM-0024241850 index, p. 70
    or taking inwardly, and applied to the place stung or bitten by any serpent, heal it speedily.
    QUO-001450Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Garden Bazil, Or Sweet Bazil Ocimum basilicumCLM-0024211850 index, p. 17
    Being applied to the place bitten by venomous beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it speedily draws the poison to it;
    QUO-000937Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Rocket Eruca vesicariaCLM-0024251850 index, p. 151
    The seed is used to cure the biting of serpents, the scorpion, and the shrew mouse, and other poisons, and expels worms, and other noisome creatures that breed in the belly.
    QUO-000967Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. St. John’s Wort Hypericum perforatumCLM-0024221850 index, p. 99
    The decoction of the herb and flowers, especially of the seed, being drank in wine, with the juice of knot-grass, helps all manner of vomiting and spitting of blood, is good for those that are bitten or stung by any venomous creature, and for those that cannot make water.
    QUO-000144Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. The Bay Tree Laurus nobilisCLM-0024231850 index, p. 18
    The berries are very effectual against all poison of venomous creatures, and the sting of wasps and bees;
    QUO-000938Papers 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