Asparagus, Sparagus, Or Sperage

Asparagus officinalis

HRB-0018Entry “ASPARAGUS, SPARAGUS, OR SPERAGE” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition

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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.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 1, under 1 heading

1. GravelCLM-0023211850 index, p. 13

   Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

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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.