CND-0160Stomach and bowels
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.
It stays the flux of the belly, kills worms, helps the fits of the mother.
It kills the worms, helps the gout, cramp, and convulsions, provokes urine, and helps all joint-aches.
It is of a cooling and drying quality, and very effectual for putrified ulcers in man or beast, to kill worms, and cleanse the putrified places.
The leaves also kill the worms in children, and is a great help to them that cannot keep their water;
Taken with salt and honey, it kills all manner of worms in the body.
The seed is familiarly given to children for the worms, and so is the infusion of the flowers in white wine given them to the quantity of two ounces at a time;
It also helps the bloody-flux, and eases the torments that come thereby, stays the immoderate courses of women, and is also good for inward or outward wounds, hurts, and bruises, and helps children both of bursting and the worms, and being either drank or injected, for the disease called Tenesmus, which is an often provocation to the stool without doing any thing.
The powder of the root taken in drink, drives forth the worms in the body.
The distilled water alone, or with a little wormseed, kills the worms in children.
The decoction of the roots in wine, or the juice taken therein, kills and drives forth all manner of worms in the belly, stomach, and maw;
The juice thereof made into a syrup, or the distilled water of the herb drank with some sugar, or without, if you will, or the smoak taken by a pipe, as is usual, but fainting, helps to expel worms in the stomach and belly, and to ease the pains in the head, or megrim, and the griping pains in the bowels.
The roots of both these sorts of Fern being bruised and boiled in Mead, or honeyed water, and drank, kills both the broad and long worms in the body, and abates the swelling and hardness of the spleen.
The juice of the herb with a little honey put into the ears helps the running of them, and the worms breeding in them:
The same being drank, doth ease the pains and torments of the belly and sides, the shaking of agues, the diseases of the liver and spleen, the worms of the belly, the stone in the reins, convulsions and cramps that come of old humours;
The juice thereof drank in wine, or the decoction of the herb drank, doth kill the worms in the stomach or belly, or the worms that grow in putrid and filthy ulcers, and made into a salve doth quickly heal all old sores, how foul or malignant soever they be.
The seed is very profitably given to children for the worms, and the juice in drink is as effectual.
It kills and drives forth the worms of the belly, if it be drank after it is boiled in wine to the half, with a little honey;
This was anciently accounted the poor man’s treacle, it being a remedy for all diseases and hurts (except those which itself breed.) It provokes urine, and women’s courses, helps the biting of mad dogs and other venomous creatures, kills worms in children, cuts and voids tough phlegm, purges the head, helps the lethargy, is a good preservative against, and a remedy for any plague, sore, or foul ulcers;
it is an admirable remedy to kill the worms, by taking half a dram of the powder in a morning in any convenient liquor;
The juice of the leaves dropped into the ears kills the worms in them.
outwardly used in ointments they kill worms, the belly anointed with it, and are excellently good to cleanse old and filthy ulcers.
It is held very good to kill the worms in men or beasts;
The oil of the seed is helpful for deafness, noise, and worms in the ears, being dropped therein;
Half a dram of the seed in powder taken in drink, kills worms in the body, brings down women’s courses, and expels urine.
The powder hereof taken, or the decoction, kills worms.
and with honey, kills worms in the belly;
and that the white berries being taken inwardly, or applied outwardly, kills the worms in the belly.
The berries stay all fluxes, help the hæmorrhoids or piles, and kill worms in children.
Being boiled in wine and drank, it is profitable to those that are stung or bitten by venemous creatures, and very effectual to stay all defluxions of rheumatic humours upon the stomach, and kills worms in the belly or stomach, quiets inward pains that arise from the heat, sharpness and corruption of blood and choler.
The seed beaten into powder, and taken as worm-seed, kills the worms, not only in children, but also in people of riper years;
The juice dropped into the ears eases the pains of them, and destroys the worms that breed therein.
It also provokes urine and women’s courses, cleanses the chest of cold phlegm, oppressing it, kills worms in the belly.
The same kills the worms in children, eases pains in the sides, and dissolves the windiness in the spleen, as also in the body, although others think it only powerful to provoke venery.
They also kill worms in children if they drink the water fasting wherein they have been steeped all night.
They are held to kill worms in children;
The powder of the dried leaves taken in drink, kills worms of the belly;
The seed bruised and boiled in wine, and given to children, expels the worms.
It kills the worms in children, being drank, and also laid upon the belly.
The seed is used to cure the biting of serpents, the scorpion, and the shrew mouse, and other poisons, and expels worms, and other noisome creatures that breed in the belly.
In the middle of the balls are often found certain white worms, which being dried and made into powder, and some of it drank, is found by experience of many to kill and drive forth the worms of the belly.
likewise it kills also the worms in children.
helps the stinging and biting of serpents, and kills the worms that breed in the ear, and in sores.
Being spread over a piece of leather, and applied to the navel, kills the worms in the belly, helps scabs and itch, running sores, cankers, tetters, and ringworms;
The seed is especially used to break and expel wind, to kill worms, and to help a stinking breath.
For it resists the putrefaction of the blood, kills worms, and is a cordial to the heart, which the seed doth more effectually, being more drying and binding, and thereby stays the hot fluxes of women’s courses, or of humours in the bloody flux, or flux of the stomach.
The seed as well as the dried herb, is often given to kill the worms in children:
help the mother, and kill the worms.
It provokes urine also, and women’s courses, and kills the flat and broad worms in the belly.
The juice of the leaves dropped into the ears, kills worms in them.
The bark of the root kills the broad worms in the body.
It kill the worms in the belly, as is found by experience.
The leaves of peaches bruised and laid on the belly, kill worms, and so they do also being boiled in ale and drank, and open the belly likewise;
The seed hereof, bruised and drank, kills worms.
but are less hurtful to those that have a colder stomach, and are said to kill the broad worms in the belly or stomach.
It kills worms in the belly, and being a notable herb of Venus, provokes the terms, gives safe and speedy delivery to women in travail, and brings away the after birth.
as also a plaster made therewith, and vinegar applied to the reins of the back, doth much help not only this, but also those that cannot hold their water, the powder being taken in the juice of plantain, and is also commended against the worms in children.
it kills and expels worms in the belly, and causes a good colour in the face and body, strengthens as well as corrects the diseases of the stomach, liver, and spleen;
it kills worms, and cleanses the body of sharp humours, which are the cause of itch and scabs;
the decoction thereof made in wine and taken, kills the worms in the belly, opens obstructions both of the spleen and liver;
The Moon looks much after children, and children are much troubled with the worms; she desired a medicine of him, he bid her take his own herb, Wormwood.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850