Chamaemelum nobile
HRB-0059Entry “CAMOMILE” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
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The flowers of Camomile beaten, and made up into balls with Gill, drive away all sorts of agues, if the part grieved be anointed with that oil, taken from the flowers, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, and afterwards laid to sweat in his bed, and that he sweats well.
It is profitable for all sorts of agues that come either from phlegm, or melancholy, or from an inflammation of the bowels, being applied when the humours causing them shall be concocted;
The flowers boiled in lye, are good to wash the head, and comfort both it and the brain.
It eases all pains of the cholic and stone, and all pains and torments of the belly, and gently provokes urine.
The flowers boiled in posset-drink provokes sweat, and helps to expel all colds, aches, and pains whatsoever, and is an excellent help to bring down women’s courses.
The oil made of the flowers of Camomile, is much used against all hard swellings, pains or aches, shrinking of the sinews, or cramps, or pains in the joints, or any other part of the body.
Syrup made of the juice of Camomile, with the flowers, in white wine, is a remedy against the jaundice and dropsy.
It is profitable for all sorts of agues that come either from phlegm, or melancholy, or from an inflammation of the bowels, being applied when the humours causing them shall be concocted;
Syrup made of the juice of Camomile, with the flowers, in white wine, is a remedy against the jaundice and dropsy.
and there is nothing more profitable to the sides and region of the liver and spleen than it.
It is profitable for all sorts of agues that come either from phlegm, or melancholy, or from an inflammation of the bowels, being applied when the humours causing them shall be concocted;
It eases all pains of the cholic and stone, and all pains and torments of the belly, and gently provokes urine.
It comforts the sinews that are over-strained, mollifies all swellings:
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
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