Worms (Culpeper says it breeds them)

CND-0161Stomach and bowels

Open in the Concordance

A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Worms”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.

Modern reading: worms. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with anthelmintic OR helminth OR nematode OR "intestinal parasites" OR antiparasitic. 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.

This heading is ours. A keyword search had filed these under “Worms”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant breeds worms. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.

2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Gooseberry Bush Ribes uva-crispaCLM-002107 Not in 1652
    All the evil they do to the body of man is, they are supposed to breed crudities, and by crudities, worms.
    QUO-001318Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Wheat Triticum aestivumCLM-002144
    Dioscorides saith, That to eat the corn of green Wheat is hurtful to the stomach, and breeds worms.
    QUO-001091Papers 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