Wind

CND-0153Stomach and bowels

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

Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.

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.

5 claims: 5 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Bishop’s-Weed Ammi majusCLM-0024491850 index, p. 25
    It digests humours, provokes urine and women’s courses, dissolves wind, and being taken in wine it eases pains and griping in the bowels, and is good against the biting of serpents;
    QUO-000241Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Carraway Carum carviCLM-0024501850 index, p. 42
    Carraway seed has a moderate sharp quality, whereby it breaks wind and provokes urine, which also the herb doth.
    QUO-001455Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Dill Anethum graveolensCLM-0024511850 index, p. 63
    The decoction therefore helps women that are troubled with the pains and windiness of the mother, if they sit therein.
    QUO-001456Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Fennel Foeniculum vulgareCLM-0024521850 index, p. 73
    Fennel is good to break wind, to provoke urine, and ease the pains of the stone, and helps to break it.
    QUO-001107Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Hemp Cannabis sativaCLM-0024531850 index, pp. 91, 264, 323
    The seed of Hemp consumes wind, and by too much use thereof disperses it so much that it dries up the natural seed for procreation;
    QUO-001457Papers 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