Anemone

Anemone

HRB-0013Entry “ANEMONE” 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.

Substance of concernFresh plant blisters and burns the skin, mouth and gut (protoanemonin); it loses this as it dries.EFSA: Protoanemonin, pentacyclic triterpene glycosidesEFSA’s list of substances, not a danger rating. Checked 26 October 2026.

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

Culpeper’s claims about it: 4, under 4 headings

  1. Eyes — (inflammations of)CLM-0023021850 index, p. 9
    Being made into an ointment, and the eyelids anointed with it, it helps inflammations of the eyes, whereby it is palpable, that every stronger draws its weaker like.
    QUO-000681Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. InflammationsCLM-000882
    Being made into an ointment, and the eyelids anointed with it, it helps inflammations of the eyes, whereby it is palpable, that every stronger draws its weaker like.
    QUO-000681Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. LeprosyCLM-001127
    The body being bathed with the decoction of them, cures the leprosy.
    QUO-000810Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. UlcersCLM-001900
    The same ointment is excellently good to cleanse malignant and corroding ulcers.
    QUO-001199Papers 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

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.