Women’s Diseases

CND-0158Women and childbirth

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

Modern reading: women's complaints. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with menstrual OR dysmenorrhea OR gynecolog* OR menstruation OR menopause. 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.

5 claims: 3 with a sentence, 2 from the index alone

1. Dog Mercury Mercurialis perennisCLM-002083

   Hippocrates commended it wonderfully for women’s diseases, and applied to the secret parts, to ease the pains of the mother;

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2. French And Dog Mercury Mercurialis annuaCLM-0024631850 index, p. 116

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

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3. MossesCLM-0024641850 index, p. 120

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

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4. Mugwort Artemisia vulgarisCLM-0024651850 index, pp. 122, 231

   This is an herb of Venus, therefore maintains the parts of the body she rules, remedies the diseases of the parts that are under her signs, Taurus and Libra.

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5. The Dwarf-Elder Sambucus ebulusCLM-002082

   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.

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Source

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