The Sea Coleworts

Crambe maritima

HRB-0057Entry “THE SEA COLEWORTS” 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 Moon, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 4, under 4 headings

  1. InflammationsCLM-0008911850 index
    The leaves or the juice of them applied to sores or ulcers, cleanses and heals them, and dissolves swellings, and takes away inflammations.
    QUO-000688Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. SwellingsCLM-0017791850 index
    The leaves or the juice of them applied to sores or ulcers, cleanses and heals them, and dissolves swellings, and takes away inflammations.
    QUO-000688Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. UlcersCLM-001916
    The leaves or the juice of them applied to sores or ulcers, cleanses and heals them, and dissolves swellings, and takes away inflammations.
    QUO-000688Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. WormsCLM-002092
    The seed hereof, bruised and drank, kills worms.
    QUO-001308Papers 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.