CND-0162Wounds, bruises and sores
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.
The juice of the leaves, drank with the distilled water of Horse-tail, is a singular remedy for all manner of wounds in the breast, bowels, or other parts of the body, and is given with good success to those that are troubled with casting, vomiting, or bleeding at the mouth or nose, or otherwise downwards.
It opens and cleanses the liver, helps the jaundice, and is very beneficial to the bowels, healing all inward wounds, bruises, hurts, and other distempers.
a singular herb for all inward wounds, exulcerated lungs, or other parts, either by itself, or boiled with other the like herbs;
Dioscorides saith it helps such as are bitten by a venomous beast, whether it be taken inwardly, or applied to the wound;
whether in man or woman, bleeding either at the nose or wound.
It is also very effectual to heal green wounds, and old ulcers;
The mild Arssmart is good against all imposthumes and inflammations at the beginning, and to heal green wounds.
as also all manner of inward wounds or outward, if washed or bathed therewith.
Bean flour is used in poultices to assuage inflammations arising from wounds, and the swelling of women’s breasts caused by the curdling of their milk, and represses their milk;
They are often used by many to good purpose for wounds, both green and old, to consolidate or knit ruptures;
They belong to Saturn and are of a drying, binding quality, and thereby very good to be used in wound drinks, as also to apply outwardly for the same purpose.
The leaves, seed, or roots, are all very good in decoction, drinks, or lotions, for inward or outward wounds, or other sores.
The juice put into fresh or green wounds, doth quickly solder up the lips of them together, and is very effectual to heal all ulcers and sores in the mouth.
The juice thereof is a singular good help to cure as well green wounds, as old and filthy sores and malignant ulcers.
The decoction of the leaves and flowers made in wine, and taken, dissolves the congealed blood in those that are bruised inwardly by a fall, or otherwise is very effectual for any inward wounds, thrusts, or stabs in the body or bowels;
They have also a drying and an astringent quality, whereby they are available in all manner of fluxes of blood or humours, to staunch bleedings inward or outward, lasks, scourings, the bloody-flux, women’s too abundant flux of courses, the whites, and the choleric belchings and castings of the stomach, and is a singular wound-herb for all sorts of wounds, both of the head and body, either inward or outward, for all old ulcers, running cankers, and most sores, to be used either by the juice or decoction of the herb, or by the powder of the herb or root, or the water of the distilled herb, or ointment by itself, or with other things to be kept.
The juice of the herb dropped into the most grievous wounds of the head, dries up their moisture, and heals them quickly.
as also bruises or hurts by blows, falls, or the like, and to stay the bleeding of wounds in any parts inward or outward.
The juice of the leaves, or they a little bruised, and applied to any bleeding wounds, stays the bleeding.
It is singularly effectual in all fresh and green wounds, and therefore bears not this name for nought.
The root boiled in water or wine, and the decoction drank, helps all inward hurts, bruises, wounds, and ulcer of the lungs, and causes the phlegm that oppresses them to be easily spit forth:
it eases pains in the sides and bowels, is excellently good for inward wounds, especially such as are made in the breast or lungs, by taking a dram of the powder of the root every morning in wine;
The leaves are good in wounds, and the flowers take away trembling.
it assuages inflammations, and swellings in wounds:
This is a singularly good wound herb, and is used inwardly, not only to stay bleeding of wounds, but to consolidate them, as it doth outwardly any green wound, which it quickly solders up, and heals.
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 herb is under the sign Cancer, and under the dominion of Venus, and therefore excellently good for wounds in the breast, and very fitting to be kept both in oils, ointments, and plaisters, as also in syrup.
The juice or distilled water of the herb, is effectual for green wounds, or old sores, and cleanses the body inwardly, and the seed outwardly, from sores, scurf, itch, pimples, freckles, morphew, or other deformities thereof, especially if a little vitriol be dissolved therein.
The roots bruised and applied, do consolidate wounds.
The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers, and fistulas;
an ointment of it is held to be good in wounds and ulcers;
The green herb bruised and applied to any green wounds, cures any fresh wound or cut whatsoever:
The roots bruised and boiled in oil, or hog’s grease, make a very profitable ointment to heal wounds, or pricks gotten in the flesh.
The decoction of the herb taken inwardly, and the bruised herb applied outwardly, dissolves clotted and congealed blood within the body, coming by any wounds, bruise, or fall;
The root itself, either green or in powder, helps to cleanse, heal, and incarnate wounds, and to cover the naked bones with flesh again, that ulcers have made bare;
it wonderfully helps all those inward parts that need consolidating or strengthening, and is no less effectual both to heal and close green wounds, than to cleanse and heal all foul or old ulcers, fretting or spreading cankers or the like.
The herb is familiarly and frequently used by the Italians to heal any fresh or green wound, the leaves being but bruised and bound thereon;
It is of excellent property to heal any inward sores or wounds, and also for outward hurts or wounds, and drawing away splinters or thorns out of the flesh.
The decoction of the herb, green or dry, or the distilled water thereof, is very effectual for inward bruises, as also to be outwardly applied, it stays bleeding in any part of the body, and of wounds;
The green herb also applied, or the juice thereof with some honey, not only cleanses putrid, stinking, foul, and malignant ulcers and sores of all sorts, but heals and solders up the lips of green wounds in any part also.
The juice of the herb, or as (Dioscorides saith) the leaves and flowers, with some fine Frankincense in powder, used in wounds of the body, nerves or sinews, doth singularly help to heal them.
Herb Robert is commended not only against the stone, but to stay blood, where or howsoever flowing, it speedily heals all green wounds, and is effectual in old ulcers in the privy parts, or elsewhere.
The leaves are very effectual as well for green wounds, as to cleanse and heal up filthy old sores and ulcers;
but all other sorts of foul, moist and running ulcers, and soon solders together the tops of green wounds.
It also helps to cure the biting of a mad dog, some of the leaves being also applied to the wound:
The green herb bruised and a little sugar put thereto, doth quickly heal any cut or green wounds, being thereunto applied.
It also quickly heals green wounds, and is effectual to heal all burnings and scaldings, and all kinds of exulcerations coming thereby, or by salt phlegm or humours in other parts of the body.
it is also used in green wounds to stay the blood, and to heal them quickly.
This Knapweed helps to stay fluxes, both of blood at the mouth or nose, or other outward parts, and those veins that are inwardly broken, or inward wounds, as also the fluxes of the belly;
It helps all fresh and green wounds, and speedily heals them.
The decoction of the former of those being drank, is good to fret and break the stone, provoke the urine, stays inward bleeding, and heals inward wounds.
Ladies’ Mantle is very proper for those wounds that have inflammations, and is very effectual to stay bleeding, vomitings, fluxes of all sorts, bruises by falls or otherwise, and helps ruptures;
This herb is good for all manner of bleeding at the mouth, nose, or wounds, and all fluxes of the belly, and the bloody-flux, given either to drink or taken by clysters;
It is also very available against wounds and thrusts, being made into an ointment in this manner:
Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.
Hippocrates used to give the decoction of the roots, or the juice thereof, to drink, to those that are wounded, and ready to faint through loss of blood, and applied the same, mixed with honey and rosin, to the wounds.
The juice hereof dropped, or tents dipped therein, and applied either to green wounds or filthy rotten ulcers, and those that come by envenomed weapons, doth soon cleanse and heal them.
It is held likewise to be good for wounds, and to take away seed.
It is exceedingly good for all wounds, either fresh or green, to heal them speedily, and for all old ulcers that are of spreading natures.
Moonwort is cold and drying more than Adder’s Tongue, and is therefore held to be more available for all wounds both inward and outward.
It stays the fluxes of blood, either at the mouth or nose, and inward bleeding also, for it is a singular wound herb for wounds both inward and outward:
as for outward wounds and sores to wash them, and to cleanse the skin from morphew, leprosy, and other discolourings thereof.
It is a singularly good wound herb, and is thereupon used with other the like effects in many compound balms for curing of wounds, be they fresh and green, or old and malignant, and especially if the sinews be burnt.
It is also accounted a singular good wound herb, and therefore used with other herbs in making such balms as are necessary for curing of wounds, either green or old, and especially if the nerves be hurt.
It stays the sharpness of humours in the bloody-flux, and other fluxes in the body, or in wounds.
This has all the virtues mentioned in the former Ferns, and is much more effectual than they, both for inward and outward griefs, and is accounted singularly good in wounds, bruises, or the like.
It is likewise also effectual to heal any green wound;
and Galen saith also, they have a drying faculty, whereby they are good to solder the lips of wounds, and to cleanse foul ulcers.
It is good to stay spitting of blood and other bleedings at the mouth, or the making of foul and bloody water, by reason of any ulcer in the reins or bladder, and also stays the too free bleeding of wounds.
Of the leaves of Primroses is made as fine a salve to heal wounds as any that I know;
He further saith, That the oil that is made of the flowers of Privet infused therein, and set in the Sun, is singularly good for the inflammations of wounds, and for the headache, coming of a hot cause.
The juice is found by experience to be singularly good to heal green wounds, and to cleanse and heal all old and filthy ulcers in the privities, and in other parts of the body, as also inward wounds and ulcers;
Being outwardly applied, it conglutinates wounds notably, and helps much to stay defluctions of rheum from the head to the eyes, nose, and teeth, being bruised green and bound thereto;
It stays the bleeding of wounds, and cleanses foul ulcers.
This is one of Venus’s herbs, to cure the wounds or mischiefs Mars inflicts upon the body of man.
Among the Germans, this wound herb is preferred before all others of the same quality.
The same also heals all inward wounds by the drying, cleansing, and healing quality therein:
It is a special herb for inward and outward wounds.
It helps all fluxes of blood, either caused by inward or outward wounds;
The root of Solomon’s Seal is found by experience to be available in wounds, hurts, and outward sores, to heal and close up the lips of those that are green, and to dry up and restrain the flux of humours to those that are old.
The Germans commend it for a singular wound herb, and therefore call it Stabwort.
as also, dries up old and inveterate running sores, and is of admirable virtue in all green wounds.
It is a singular wound herb;
The root is very effectual in all wounds, especially of the head;
The buds, leaves, and branches, while they are green, are of a good use in the ulcers and putrid sores of the mouth and throat, and of the quinsey, and likewise to heal other fresh wounds and sores;
and therefore the decoction, or distilled water of the leaves, is excellent against burnings and inflammations, either with wounds or without, to bathe the place grieved with, and especially for that inflammation in the breast, which the vulgar call an ague.
The leaves thereof bruised and applied, heal green wounds, being bound thereon with its own bark.
The dried leaves in powder strewed on fresh bleeding wounds restrains the blood, and heals up the wound quickly.
The leaves of Mulberries are said to stay bleeding at the mouth or nose, or the bleeding of the piles, or of a wound, being bound unto the places.
and Galen applied them, being bruised, to cure green wounds.
It is singularly good both for green and fresh wounds, as also for old ulcers and sores, to close up the one and cleanse the other, and perfectly to cure them both, although they are hollow or fistulous;
The powder of them strewed upon fresh bleeding wounds stays their bleeding, and closes them up.
but the harsher sorts do more cool and bind, serving well to be bound to green wounds, to cool and stay the blood, and heal up the green wound without farther trouble, or inflammation, as Galen saith he hath found by experience.
The ointment called Populneon, which is made of this Poplar, is singularly good for all heat and inflammations in any part of the body, and tempers the heat of wounds.
and are profitably used in that manner to stay the bleeding of wounds, and of the mouth or nose, to be applied to the forehead and nape of the neck;
being boiled with barley meal into a poultice, it cools inflammations of wounds;
The kernels, when they grow old, are more oily, and therefore not fit to be eaten, but are then used to heal the wounds of the sinews, gangrenes, and carbuncles.
Both the leaves, bark, and the seed, are used to stanch bleeding of wounds, and at mouth and nose, spitting of blood, and other fluxes of blood in man or woman, and to stay vomiting, and provocation thereunto, if the decoction of them in wine be drank.
Thorough-Wax is of singular good use for all sorts of bruises and wounds either inward or outward;
Tormentil is no less effectual and powerful a remedy against outward wounds, sores and hurts, than for inward, and is therefore a special ingredient to be used in wound drinks, lotions and injections, for foul corrupt rotten sores and ulcers of the mouth, secrets, or other parts of the body.
it stays all the bleedings of wounds, if either the green herb be bruised, or the powder of the dry be applied thereto.
It consolidates and heals also all wounds, both inward and outward, stays bleedings, and used with some honey, heals all old ulcers and fistulas in the legs or other parts of the body;
Water Betony is an herb of Jupiter in Cancer, and is appropriated more to wounds and hurts in the breast than Wood Betony, which follows:
The seed as well as the root is effectual to stay fluxes of blood or humours, either of wounds or of the belly;
It cleanses and heals ulcers in the mouth, or secret parts, and is very good for inward wounds, and to close the lips of green wounds, and to heal old, moist, and corrupt running sores in the legs or elsewhere.
Winter-green is under the dominion of Saturn, and is a singularly good wound herb, and an especial remedy for healing green wounds speedily, the green leaves being bruised and applied, or the juice of them.
It is good for the scurvy, and found by experience to be a singularly good wound herb to cleanse inward wounds;
The people in some countries of this land, do use to bruise the herb, and lay it to cuts or wounds in the hands or legs, to heal them.
The green herb bruised, or the juice applied to any inward hurt, or outward green wound in the head or body, will quickly heal and close it up;
It is singularly good to heal wounds, or to stay the bleeding of thrusts or scabs in the body.
It is no less effectual also in green wounds, to be used upon any occasion.
An ointment of them cures wounds, and is most fit for such as have inflammations, it being an herb of Dame Venus;
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850