Tumours — (hot)

CND-0144Swelling, pain and the whole body

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

Modern reading: hot swellings. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with swelling OR tumor OR edema OR "anti-inflammatory". 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.

3 claims: 3 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

1. Endive Cichorium endiviaCLM-001892

   Outwardly applied, they serve to temper the sharp humours of fretting ulcers, hot tumours, swellings, and pestilential sores;

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2. Pellitory Of The Wall Parietaria officinalisCLM-001894

   as also all other hot tumours and inflammations, or breakings-out, of heat, being bathed often with wet cloths dipped therein:

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3. Water Lily Nymphaea albaCLM-0018931850 index

   The oil made of the flowers, as oil of Roses is made, is profitably used to cool hot tumours, and to ease the pains, and help the sores.

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Source

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