Black Cresses

No Latin name recorded

HRB-0090Entry “BLACK CRESSES” 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 Mars, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 6, under 6 headings

1. Brain (to strengthen)CLM-000324

   The seed of Black Cresses strengthens the brain exceedingly, being, in performing that office, little inferior to mustard seed, if at all;

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2. CoughsCLM-000559

   so you have an excellent remedy by you, not only for the premises, but also for the cough, yellow jaundice and sciatica.

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3. InflammationsCLM-0009011850 index

   This herb boiled into a poultice, is an excellent remedy for inflammations;

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4. JaundiceCLM-001011

   so you have an excellent remedy by you, not only for the premises, but also for the cough, yellow jaundice and sciatica.

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5. Jaundice — YellowCLM-001077

   so you have an excellent remedy by you, not only for the premises, but also for the cough, yellow jaundice and sciatica.

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6. LungsCLM-001250

   they are excellently good to stay those rheums which may fall down from the head upon the lungs;

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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.