Stomach (Culpeper says it harms)

CND-0131Stomach and bowels

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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 “Stomach”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.

Modern reading: stomach. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with stomach OR gastric OR gastroprotective OR "gastric ulcer" OR dyspepsia. 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 “Stomach”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant harms it. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.

6 claims: 6 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Briony, Or Wild Vine Bryonia dioicaCLM-001576

   The root of Briony purges the belly with great violence, troubling the stomach and burning the liver, and therefore not rashly to be taken;

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2. Dog Mercury Mercurialis perennisCLM-001620

   It also cleanses the breast and lungs of phlegm, but a little offends the stomach.

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3. Polypody Of The Oak Polypodium vulgareCLM-001633

   Some use to put to it some Fennel seeds, or Annis seeds, or Ginger, to correct that loathing it brings to the stomach, which is more than needs, it being a safe and gentle medicine, fit for all persons, which daily experience confirms;

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4. Raddish, Or Horse-Raddish Raphanus sativusCLM-001638

   Garden Raddishes are in wantonness by the gentry eaten as a sallad, but they breed but scurvy humours in the stomach, and corrupt the blood, and then send for a physician as fast as you can;

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5. Southern Wood Artemisia abrotanumCLM-001653

   It is held by all writers, ancient and modern, to be more offensive to the stomach than worm-wood.

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6. Wheat Triticum aestivumCLM-001666

   Dioscorides saith, That to eat the corn of green Wheat is hurtful to the stomach, and breeds worms.

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Source

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