Veronica beccabunga
HRB-0047Entry “BROOK LIME, OR WATER-PIMPERNEL” 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.
Historical correspondence. Ruled by Mars, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
Brook-lime and Water-Cresses are generally used together in diet-drink, with other things serving to purge the blood and body from all ill humours that would destroy health, and are helpful to the scurvy.
Being fried with butter and vinegar, and applied warm, it helps all manner of tumours, swellings, and inflammations.
Brook-lime and Water-Cresses are generally used together in diet-drink, with other things serving to purge the blood and body from all ill humours that would destroy health, and are helpful to the scurvy.
They do all provoke urine, and help to break the stone, and pass it away;
Being fried with butter and vinegar, and applied warm, it helps all manner of tumours, swellings, and inflammations.
Being fried with butter and vinegar, and applied warm, it helps all manner of tumours, swellings, and inflammations.
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.