CND-0135Water, kidneys and stones
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It helps all cold griefs of the head, the vertigo, falling-sickness, the lethargy, the wind cholic, obstructions of the liver and spleen, stone in the kidneys and bladder.
The decoction of the leaves in white wine helps to break the stone, and expel it, and cures the jaundice.
The water distilled from the green husk, is held to be very effectual against the stone, and to provoke urine.
But the latter Bird’s Foot is found by experience to break the stone in the back or kidneys, and drives them forth, if the decoction thereof be taken;
it cleanses the reins and kidneys from gravel and stone, by opening the obstructions of the spleen, and consume the hardness and swelling thereof.
They do all provoke urine, and help to break the stone, and pass it away;
it also provokes strong vomits, and helps the pains of the sides, and swelling of the spleen, cleanses also the reins or kidneys and bladder of the stone, provokes urine abundantly, and hinders the growing again of the stone in the body.
The same being also drank, helps those that are troubled with the stone in the reins or kidneys, by cooling the heat of the part afflicted, and strengthens them;
and likewise helps the windy pains of the mother, and to procure their courses, and to break and void the stone in the kidneys, to digest cold, viscous, and tough phlegm in the stomach, and is an especial remedy against all kind of venom.
The decoction of the root made with wine opens obstructions, provokes urine, helps to expel gravel and the stone, the stranguary and women’s courses, also the yellow jaundice and the head-ache;
Being boiled twice, an old cock boiled in the broth and drank, it helps the pains and the obstructions of the liver and spleen, and the stone in the kidneys.
It eases all pains of the cholic and stone, and all pains and torments of the belly, and gently provokes urine.
and being drank, helps to expel urine, being stopped, and gravel and stone in the reins and kidneys.
Wild Carrots belong to Mercury, and therefore break wind, and remove stitches in the sides, provoke urine and women’s courses, and helps to break and expel the stone;
The juice or distilled water thereof being drank, and the bruised leaves laid to the place, being taken either in meat or drink, it is good to help to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send down women’s courses, and to help the pleurisy and pricking of the sides.
they have a cleansing faculty, whereby they break the stone in the kidneys.
The Spaniards used to eat a piece of the root thereof in the morning fasting, many days together, to help them when troubled with the stone in the reins or kidneys.
It cleanses the bladder, and provokes urine, expels gravel, and the stone;
wastes the matter of the stone in the bladder, and the ulcers thereof also.
It is found by experience to be singularly good for wind cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel in the kidneys.
The dried root made into powder, and mixed with sugar, and taken, serves to the same purpose, and is also profitable for those who have their urine stopped, or the stopping of women’s courses, the pains of the mother and the stone in the reins, kidneys, or bladder;
It is profitable for those that are troubled with the stone in the kidneys, both to ease the pains by provoking urine, and also to expel gravel and the stone engendered therein, and hath been found very effectual to expel windiness, and other humours, which cause the strangling of the mother.
The decoction of the root hereof in wine, is very effectual to open obstructions of the spleen and liver, and helps yellow jaundice, dropsy, pains of the loins, and wind cholic, provokes urine, and expels the stone, procures women’s courses.
Fennel is good to break wind, to provoke urine, and ease the pains of the stone, and helps to break it.
The decoction thereof made with some sugar, or honey put thereto, is used by many with good success to help the cough and stuffing of the chest, by colds, as also to cleanse the reins and bladder, and helps to expel the stone in them.
the stone in the kidneys or bladder, the gravel, and all other pains of the bladder and reins, by taking the roots in powder, or a decoction of them in white wine, with a little honey.
The same being drank, doth ease the pains and torments of the belly and sides, the shaking of agues, the diseases of the liver and spleen, the worms of the belly, the stone in the reins, convulsions and cramps that come of old humours;
a dram at a time taken in white wine to prevent the stone, or to cleanse the kidneys of gravel or stoppage.
It is used also against the stone in the reins, especially to men.
Also they say it breaks the stone, and helps ruptures most certainly:
Arnoldus de Villa Nova commends it much against the stone in the reins and kidneys, and to provoke urine in abundance, whereby also the gravel and stone may be voided.
The young and tender leaves break the stone, and expel gravel both from the kidneys and bladder.
It helps them that are troubled with the stone, provokes urine, and helps the dimness of the sight.
and therefore if Mars cause the cholic or stone, as usually he doth, if in Virgo, this is your cure.
The seeds in the berries beaten to powder being drank in wine, are held singularly good against the stone, and are good for the dropsy.
Herb Robert is commended not only against the stone, but to stay blood, where or howsoever flowing, it speedily heals all green wounds, and is effectual in old ulcers in the privy parts, or elsewhere.
The decoction thereof in wine being drank, provokes urine, and helps the stone and stranguary;
They being taken in wine, do certainly help to break the stone, provoke urine, and women’s courses.
The berries break the stone, procure appetite when it is lost, and are excellently good for all palsies, and falling-sickness.
The said juice or water helps to heal sore kidneys, torn or fretted by the stone, or exulcerated within;
and is powerful by urine to expel the gravel or stone in the kidneys and bladder, a dram of the powder of the herb being taken in wine for many days together.
The decoction of the former of those being drank, is good to fret and break the stone, provoke the urine, stays inward bleeding, and heals inward wounds.
they are excellently good for the scurvy, they provoke urine, and break the stone, and excellently warm a cold and weak stomach, restoring lost appetite, and help digestion.
The leaves are likewise used to loosen the belly gently, and in decoctions or clysters to ease all pains of the body, opening the strait passages, and making them slippery, whereby the stone may descend the more easily and without pain, out of the reins, kidneys, and bladder, and to ease the torturing pains thereof.
It also provokes urine, and helps to break the stone, and expel the gravel from the kidneys;
It is good against the gravel and stone in the kidneys, and the stranguary.
The Ground Moss is held to be singularly good to break the stone, and to expel and drive it forth by urine, being boiled in wine and drank.
It is a special remedy against the stone, and the tormenting pains thereof:
It breaks the stone, and opens the urinary passages where they are stopped.
The same also, or the seed provokes urine, and expels the gravel and stone in the reins or bladder, often proved to be effectual in many that have taken it.
It provokes urine, breaks and expels the stone, and is good for the dropsy.
The seed is effectual to provoke urine and women’s courses, to expel wind, to break the stone, and ease the pains and torments thereof;
Its operation is very prevalent to provoke urine, and to break the stone.
Three ounces of the juice thereof taken at a time, doth wonderfully help stopping of the urine, and to expel the stone or gravel in the kidneys or bladder, and is therefore usually put among other herbs used in clysters to mitigate pains in the back, sides, or bowels, proceeding of wind, stopping of urine, the gravel or stone, as aforesaid.
It provokes urine, and helps to expel the stone and gravel out of the kidneys and bladder, and helps much in all inward pains and ulcers.
The gum of the tree is good to break the stone.
it expelleth the gravel and stone out of the kidneys, and helpeth pains in the reins.
yet for such as are troubled with the gravel, stone, or stoppage of urine, they are good physic, if the body be strong that takes them;
It is singularly good to provoke urine when it is stopped, and to break and drive forth the stone, which the powder of the bark of the root taken in wine performs effectually.
The briar ball is often used, being made into powder and drank, to break the stone, to provoke urine when it is stopped, and to ease and help the cholic;
It doth also most assuredly help those that have the stranguary, or are troubled with the stone or gravel in the reins or bladder.
provokes urine, and helps thereby to wash away the gravel and stone engendered in the kidneys or bladder.
The seed bruised and boiled in wine, is a singularly good remedy for the wind colic, or the stone, being drank warm:
Some make great boast thereof, that it is diuretical to provoke urine, and thereby to expel gravel and the stone in the reins or kidneys, and do also account it singularly good to void hydropical waters:
The decoction of the roots is taken to help the jaundice, and to expel the gravel and the stone in the reins or kidneys.
The distilled water of the herb is said to help them much that are troubled with the stone, as also for the diseases of the spleen and mother.
Pliny saith, That it hath caused the gravel and stone to be voided by urine, and that the eating thereof helps a stinking breath.
It helps the stranguary, and wasteth the stone in the bladder, and is good against the yellow jaundice and the hiccough;
The seed of this Star Thistle made into powder, and drank in wine, provokes urine, and helps to break the stone, and drives it forth.
the bark of the root is less sharp and hot, but more bitter, and hath some astriction withal whereby it is effectual to break the stone, and good to open obstructions of the liver, spleen, and other inward parts, which bring the jaundice, dropsy, &c.
any of these being drank for some days together, is available to break the stone in the kidneys and bladder, and is good also to wash sore mouths.
Either the decoction of the powder or of the root taken, is good to break or drive forth gravel and the stone in the reins and kidneys.
The roots may be preserved with sugar, and taken fasting, or at other times, for the same purposes, and for consumptions, the stone, and the lask.
mends the colour in the face, sharpens the eye-sight, provokes appetite, and helps to break and expel the stone, and dissolved, the water thereof is much used to break the stone, and to expel gravel and wind.
It is very effectual to cleanse the reins and bladder, and to dissolve the stone engendered in them, and to expel it and the gravel by urine;
in helping the gout, piles, and women’s diseases, colours the hair black, helps the inflammations of the eyes, and pains in the ears, the biting of serpents, or mad dogs, burnings and scaldings, the wind cholic, cholic, and stone, the difficulty of urine, the cure of old sores and fistulous ulcers.
A decoction made with the flowers thereof hath been found effectual against the jaundice, as also to provoke urine, and cleanse the kidneys from gravel or stone ingendered in them.
The medlar-stones made into powder, and drank in wine, wherein some Parsley-roots have lain infused all night, or a little boiled, do break the stone in the kidneys, helping to expel it.
It cools the heat of the liver, breaking the stone in the kidneys, and stays women’s courses.
Two drams hereof given in the juice of lemons, or of radish, is good for them that are troubled with the stone, the kernels of the stones do wonderfully ease the pains and wringings of the belly through wind or sharp humours, and help to make an excellent medicine for the stone upon all occasions, in this manner:
Also the tears of the Vine, drank two or three spoonfuls at a time, breaks the stone in the bladder.
and boiled with cummin, helps the stone in the reins, kidneys, or bladder, provokes urine and women’s courses, and causes an easy and speedy delivery in child-birth.
helps the cough, wheezings, and shortness of breath, and all the defects of the reins and bladder, expelling the gravel and stone.
The decoction of the herb Maiden-Hair being drank, helps those that are troubled with the cough, shortness of breath, the yellow jaundice, diseases of the spleen, stopping of urine, and helps exceedingly to break the stone in the kidneys, (in all which diseases the Wall Rue is also very effectual.) It provokes women’s courses, and stays both bleedings and fluxes of the stomach and belly, especially when the herb is dry;
They are more powerful against the scurvy, and to cleanse the blood and humours, than Brooklime is, and serve in all the other uses in which Brooklime is available, as to break the stone, and provoke urine and woman’s courses.
They are excellent for the stone and gravel, especially the nuts, being dried.
it comforts and strengthens the head, stomach, reins, and womb, expels wind, and breaks the stone.
it is good also to expel the stone and gravel out of the reins, kidneys and bladder, helping to dissolve the stone, and voiding it by grit or gravel sent forth in the urine;
This is profitable to provoke urine, to help stranguary, and expel gravel and stone.
It helps also to break and expel the stone, either in the bladder or kidneys.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850