Garden Arrach

Atriplex hortensis

HRB-0014Entry “GARDEN ARRACH” 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 Moon, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 3, under 3 headings

  1. JaundiceCLM-000992
    the decoction of it, besides, is an excellent remedy for the yellow jaundice.
    QUO-000752Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Jaundice — YellowCLM-001066
    the decoction of it, besides, is an excellent remedy for the yellow jaundice.
    QUO-000752Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. SwellingsCLM-001768
    The herb, whether it be bruised and applied to the throat, or boiled, and in like manner applied, it matters not much, it is excellently good for swellings in the throat:
    QUO-001134Papers 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.