Garden Bazil, Or Sweet Bazil

Ocimum basilicum

HRB-0025Entry “GARDEN BAZIL, OR SWEET BAZIL” 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 Mars, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

What it does, in Culpeper: Counter-poison

Culpeper’s claims about it: 3, under 3 headings, 1 where he says it harms or causes

1. Brain (Culpeper says it harms)CLM-000316

   Hilarius, a French physician, affirms upon his own knowledge, that an acquaintance of his, by common smelling to it, had a scorpion bred in his brain.

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2. Poison (to expel)CLM-001380

   Being applied to the place bitten by venomous beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it speedily draws the poison to it;

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3. Stings and Venomous BitesCLM-0024211850 index, p. 17

   Being applied to the place bitten by venomous beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it speedily draws the poison to it;

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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.