Alkanet

Alkanna tinctoria

HRB-0003Entry “ALKANET” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850

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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.

Historical correspondence. Ruled by Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 13, under 13 headings

1. Anthony’s FireCLM-000081

   It helps old ulcers, hot inflammations, burnings by common fire, and St. Anthony’s fire, by antipathy to Mars;

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2. BruisesCLM-000349

   It helps bruises and falls, and is as gallant a remedy to drive out the small pox and measles as any is;

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3. GravelCLM-000798

   It helps the yellow jaundice, spleen, and gravel in the kidneys.

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4. InflammationsCLM-000879

   It helps old ulcers, hot inflammations, burnings by common fire, and St. Anthony’s fire, by antipathy to Mars;

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5. JaundiceCLM-000987

   It helps the yellow jaundice, spleen, and gravel in the kidneys.

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6. Jaundice — YellowCLM-001063

   It helps the yellow jaundice, spleen, and gravel in the kidneys.

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7. LeprosyCLM-001126

   also, if you make a vinegar of it, as you make vinegar of roses, it helps the morphew and leprosy;

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8. MeaslesCLM-001298

   It helps bruises and falls, and is as gallant a remedy to drive out the small pox and measles as any is;

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9. Measles — (to drive out)CLM-0023671850 index, p. 2

   It helps bruises and falls, and is as gallant a remedy to drive out the small pox and measles as any is;

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10. Small PoxCLM-001558

    It helps bruises and falls, and is as gallant a remedy to drive out the small pox and measles as any is;

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11. UlcersCLM-001895

    It helps old ulcers, hot inflammations, burnings by common fire, and St. Anthony’s fire, by antipathy to Mars;

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12. WormsCLM-002085

    It stays the flux of the belly, kills worms, helps the fits of the mother.

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13. WoundsCLM-002146

    Dioscorides saith it helps such as are bitten by a venomous beast, whether it be taken inwardly, or applied to the wound;

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Source

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

Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.