The Birch Tree

Betula pendula

HRB-0036Entry “THE BIRCH 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 Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 2, under 2 headings

1. Sore MouthCLM-0024141850 index, p. 24

   any of these being drank for some days together, is available to break the stone in the kidneys and bladder, and is good also to wash sore mouths.

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2. StoneCLM-001676

   any of these being drank for some days together, is available to break the stone in the kidneys and bladder, and is good also to wash sore mouths.

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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.