Clinopodium nepeta
HRB-0058Entry “CALAMINT, OR MOUNTAIN-MINT” 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 Mercury, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
What it does, in Culpeper: Stops vomiting
that have any cold distemper in their bowels, and are troubled with the hardness or the spleen, for all which purposes, both the powder, called Diacaluminthes, and the compound Syrup of Calamint are the most effectual.
It is an herb of Mercury, and a strong one too, therefore excellent good in all afflictions of the brain.
It is profitable for those that are bursten, or troubled with convulsions or cramps, with shortness of breath, or choleric torments and pains in their bellies or stomach;
The decoction hereof, with some sugar put thereto afterwards, is very profitable for those that be troubled with the over-flowing of the gall, and that have an old cough, and that are scarce able to breathe by shortness of their wind;
It is profitable for those that are bursten, or troubled with convulsions or cramps, with shortness of breath, or choleric torments and pains in their bellies or stomach;
it also helps the yellow-jaundice, and stays vomiting, being taken in wine.
it also helps the yellow-jaundice, and stays vomiting, being taken in wine.
It helps such as have the leprosy, either taken inwardly, drinking whey after it, or the green herb outwardly applied.
The leaves boiled in wine, and drank, provoke sweat, and open obstructions of the liver and spleen.
It is profitable for those that are bursten, or troubled with convulsions or cramps, with shortness of breath, or choleric torments and pains in their bellies or stomach;
It is profitable for those that are bursten, or troubled with convulsions or cramps, with shortness of breath, or choleric torments and pains in their bellies or stomach;
it also helps the yellow-jaundice, and stays vomiting, being taken in wine.
Taken with salt and honey, it kills all manner of worms in the body.
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.