Warts

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

Modern reading: warts. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with warts OR papillomavirus OR verruca OR HPV. 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.

13 claims: 12 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone

  1. Buck’s Horn Plantago coronopusCLM-0020531850 index Not in 1652
    The herbs bruised and applied to warts, will make them consume and waste in a short time.
    QUO-001292Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Celandine Chelidonium majusCLM-002054
    The juice often applied to tetters, ring-worms, or other such like spreading cankers, will quickly heal them, and rubbed often upon warts, will take them away.
    QUO-000338Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Dog Mercury Mercurialis perennisCLM-002056
    The leaves or the juice rubbed upon warts, takes them away.
    QUO-001294Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Garden-Rue Ruta graveolensCLM-002059
    It cures the morphew, and takes away all sorts of warts, if boiled in wine with some pepper and nitre, and the place rubbed therewith, and with almond and honey helps the dry scabs, or any tetter or ringworm.
    QUO-001297Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Houseleek Or Sengreen Sempervivum tectorumCLM-0024461850 index, p. 97

    Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

    Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. Mullein Verbascum thapsusCLM-002057
    The juice of the leaves and flowers being laid upon rough warts, as also the powder of the dried roots rubbed on, doth easily take them away, but doth no good to smooth warts.
    QUO-001295Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. The Fig-Tree Ficus caricaCLM-002055 Not in 1652
    The milk that issues out from the leaves or branches where they are broken off, being dropped upon warts, takes them away.
    QUO-001293Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. The Fuller’s Thistle, Or Teasle Dipsacus fullonumCLM-002060
    Dioscorides saith, That the root bruised and boiled in wine, till it be thick, and kept in a brazen vessel, and after spread as a salve, and applied to the fundament, doth heal the cleft thereof, cankers and fistulas therein, also takes away warts and wens.
    QUO-000356Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  9. The Poplar Tree PopulusCLM-0020581850 index
    The water that drops from the hollow places of this tree, takes away warts, pushes, wheals, and other the like breakings-out of the body.
    QUO-001296Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  10. The Willow Tree Salix albaCLM-002064
    the burnt ashes of the bark being mixed with vinegar, takes away warts, corns, and superfluous flesh, being applied to the place.
    QUO-000461Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  11. Thyme Thymus vulgarisCLM-002061 Not in 1652
    An ointment made of it takes away hot swellings and warts, helps the sciatica and dullness of sight, and takes away pains and hardness of the spleen.
    QUO-001173Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  12. Turnsole, Or Heliotropium Heliotropium europaeumCLM-002062
    the seed and juice of the leaves also being rubbed with a little salt upon warts and wens, and other kernels in the face, eye-lids, or any other part of the body, will, by often using, take them away.
    QUO-001298Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  13. Wheat Triticum aestivumCLM-002063
    The leaves of Wheat meal applied with some salt, take away hardness of the skin, warts, and hard knots in the flesh.
    QUO-001299Papers 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