Vaccinium myrtillus
HRB-0034Entry “BILBERRIES, CALLED BY SOME WHORTS AND WHORTLE-BERRIES” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
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.
What it does, in Culpeper: Stops vomiting
The black Bilberries are good in hot agues and to cool the heat of the liver and stomach;
The black Bilberries are good in hot agues and to cool the heat of the liver and stomach;
The Red Worts are more binding, and stops women’s courses, spitting of blood, or any other flux of blood or humours, being used as well outwardly as inwardly.
the juice of the berries made in a syrup, or the pulp made into a conserve with sugar, is good for the purposes aforesaid, as also for an old cough, or an ulcer in the lungs, or other diseases therein.
The black Bilberries are good in hot agues and to cool the heat of the liver and stomach;
the juice of the berries made in a syrup, or the pulp made into a conserve with sugar, is good for the purposes aforesaid, as also for an old cough, or an ulcer in the lungs, or other diseases therein.
The black Bilberries are good in hot agues and to cool the heat of the liver and stomach;
the juice of the berries made in a syrup, or the pulp made into a conserve with sugar, is good for the purposes aforesaid, as also for an old cough, or an ulcer in the lungs, or other diseases therein.
they do somewhat bind the belly, and stay vomiting and loathings;
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.