Darnel

Lolium temulentum

HRB-0098Entry “DARNEL” 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.

Substance of concernSeed infected by a fungus causes a drunken sickness: bread made with it once poisoned sixty prisoners in Cologne.EFSA’s list of substances, not a danger rating. Checked 26 October 2026.

Historical correspondence. Ruled by Saturn, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 1, under 1 heading

  1. CankersCLM-000404
    The meal of Darnel is very good to stay gangrenes, and other such like fretting and eating cankers, and putrid sores:
    QUO-000339Papers 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.