Dove’s-Foot, Or Crane’s-Bill

Geranium molle

HRB-0104Entry “DOVE’S-FOOT, OR CRANE’S-BILL” 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.

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: 9, under 9 headings, 1 where he says it harms or causes

  1. The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers, and fistulas;
    QUO-000132Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. BruisesCLM-000365
    The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers, and fistulas;
    QUO-000132Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. CholicCLM-0004581850 index
    It is found by experience to be singularly good for wind cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel in the kidneys.
    QUO-000387Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. FistulasCLM-000785
    The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers, and fistulas;
    QUO-000132Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. GravelCLM-000809
    It is found by experience to be singularly good for wind cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel in the kidneys.
    QUO-000387Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. RupturesCLM-001461
    The powder or decoction of the herb taken for some time together, is found by experience to be singularly good for ruptures and burstings in people, either young or old.
    QUO-000996Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. StoneCLM-001698
    It is found by experience to be singularly good for wind cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel in the kidneys.
    QUO-000387Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. UlcersCLM-001937
    The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers, and fistulas;
    QUO-000132Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  9. WoundsCLM-002181
    The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers, and fistulas;
    QUO-000132Papers 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.