Vomit

CND-0147Stomach and bowels

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Historical label: “Vomit” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.

Modern reading: provoking vomiting. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with emetic OR vomiting. 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.

7 claims: 6 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

1. Antimonial WineCLM-0024451850 index, p. 292

   Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.

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2. Asarabacca Asarum europaeumCLM-002024

   nor much beating, for the finer powder provokes vomits and urine, and the coarser purgeth downwards.

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3. Broom, And Broom-Rape Cytisus scopariusCLM-002025

   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.

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4. Groundsel Senecio vulgarisCLM-002036

   yet causes vomiting if the stomach be afflicted;

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5. The Black Alder-Tree Frangula alnusCLM-002029

   for the fresh green bark taken inwardly provokes strong vomitings, pains in the stomach, and gripings in the belly;

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6. The Dwarf-Elder Sambucus ebulusCLM-002035

   The juice of the root taken, doth mightily procure vomitings, and purges the watery humours of the dropsy.

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7. The Peach Tree Prunus persicaCLM-002043

   A syrup made of them, as the syrup of roses is made, works more forcibly than that of roses, for it provokes vomiting, and spends waterish and hydropic humours by the continuance thereof.

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Source

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