Cuscuta epithymum
HRB-0102Entry “DODDER OF THYME, EPITHYMUM, AND OTHER DODDERS” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
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What it does, in Culpeper: Purge
Purging the veins of the choleric and phlegmatic humours, and helps children in agues, a little worm seed being put thereto.
This is accounted the most effectual for melancholy diseases, and to purge black or burnt choler, which is the cause of many diseases of the head and brain, as also for the trembling of the heart, faintings and swoonings.
This is accounted the most effectual for melancholy diseases, and to purge black or burnt choler, which is the cause of many diseases of the head and brain, as also for the trembling of the heart, faintings and swoonings.
it opens obstructions of the gall, whereby it profits them that have the jaundice;
This is accounted the most effectual for melancholy diseases, and to purge black or burnt choler, which is the cause of many diseases of the head and brain, as also for the trembling of the heart, faintings and swoonings.
Purging the veins of the choleric and phlegmatic humours, and helps children in agues, a little worm seed being put thereto.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
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