Ash Tree

Fraxinus excelsior

HRB-0020Entry “ASH TREE” 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.

Historical correspondence. Ruled by Sun, 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. DropsyCLM-000663
    and the water distilled therefrom being taken, a small quantity every morning fasting, is a singular medicine for those that are subject to dropsy, or to abate the greatness of those that are too gross or fat.
    QUO-000531Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. JaundiceCLM-0009941850 index
    The decoction of the leaves in white wine helps to break the stone, and expel it, and cures the jaundice.
    QUO-000753Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. StoneCLM-0016701850 index
    The decoction of the leaves in white wine helps to break the stone, and expel it, and cures the jaundice.
    QUO-000753Papers 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.