Beta vulgaris
HRB-0030Entry “BEETS” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
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Historical correspondence. Ruled by Saturn, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
it helps burnings, being used with oil, and with a little alum put to it, is good for St. Anthony’s fire.
The red Beet is good to stay the bloody-flux, women’s courses, and the whites, and to help the yellow jaundice;
The juice of it opens obstructions both of the liver and spleen, and is good for the head-ache and swimmings therein, and turnings of the brain;
and cleanses the head of dandruff, scurf, and dry scabs, and does much good for fretting and running sores, ulcers, and cankers in the head, legs, or other parts, and is much commended against baldness and shedding the hair.
the herb boiled, and laid upon chilblains or kibes, helps them.
and applied to the temples, stays inflammations of the eyes;
The juice of it opens obstructions both of the liver and spleen, and is good for the head-ache and swimmings therein, and turnings of the brain;
and applied to the temples, stays inflammations of the eyes;
The red Beet is good to stay the bloody-flux, women’s courses, and the whites, and to help the yellow jaundice;
The red Beet is good to stay the bloody-flux, women’s courses, and the whites, and to help the yellow jaundice;
The juice of it opens obstructions both of the liver and spleen, and is good for the head-ache and swimmings therein, and turnings of the brain;
and cleanses the head of dandruff, scurf, and dry scabs, and does much good for fretting and running sores, ulcers, and cankers in the head, legs, or other parts, and is much commended against baldness and shedding the hair.
the juice of the root put into the nostrils, purges the head, helps the noise in the ears, and the tooth-ache;
and cleanses the head of dandruff, scurf, and dry scabs, and does much good for fretting and running sores, ulcers, and cankers in the head, legs, or other parts, and is much commended against baldness and shedding the hair.
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.