Bidens tripartita
HRB-0006Entry “WATER AGRIMONY” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850
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 Jupiter, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
Country people give it to their cattle when they are troubled with the cough, or broken-winded.
It helps the cachexia or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy and yellow-jaundice.
It breaks imposthumes away inwardly:
It helps the cachexia or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy and yellow-jaundice.
It helps the cachexia or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy and yellow-jaundice.
It opens obstructions of the liver, mollifies the hardness of the spleen, being applied outwardly.
It strengthens the lungs exceedingly.
it kills worms, and cleanses the body of sharp humours, which are the cause of itch and scabs;
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.