Water Betony

Scrophularia auriculata

HRB-0031Entry “WATER BETONY” 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 Jupiter, 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. BruisesCLM-000356
    as also for bruises and hurts, whether inward or outward.
    QUO-000308Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. UlcersCLM-001905
    The leaves bruised and applied are effectual for all old and filthy ulcers;
    QUO-001202Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. WoundsCLM-002157
    Water Betony is an herb of Jupiter in Cancer, and is appropriated more to wounds and hurts in the breast than Wood Betony, which follows:
    QUO-001351Papers 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.