Crab’s Claws

Stratiotes aloides

HRB-0089Entry “CRAB’S CLAWS” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850

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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: 5, under 5 headings, 1 where he says it harms or causes

1. Anthony’s FireCLM-0000851850 index

   it is excellently good for inflammation which is commonly called St. Anthony’s Fire;

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2. Bleeding (to stay)CLM-000150

   there is scarcely a better remedy growing than this is, for such as have bruised their kidneys, and upon that account discharge blood;

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3. InflammationsCLM-000900

   it is excellently good for inflammation which is commonly called St. Anthony’s Fire;

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4. SwellingsCLM-001789

   it assuages inflammations, and swellings in wounds:

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5. WoundsCLM-002176

   it assuages inflammations, and swellings in wounds:

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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.