Duck’s Meat

Lemna minor

HRB-0105Entry “DUCK’S MEAT” 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 Moon, 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. Anthony’s FireCLM-0000861850 index
    It is effectual to help inflammations, and St. Anthony’s Fire, as also the gout, either applied by itself, or in a poultice with Barley meal.
    QUO-000066Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. FeversCLM-000755
    The distilled water by some is highly esteemed against all inward inflammations and pestilent fevers;
    QUO-000595Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Head — AcheCLM-0023281850 index, p. 66
    The fresh herb applied to the forehead, eases the pains of the head-ache coming of heat.
    QUO-001428Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. InflammationsCLM-000904
    It is effectual to help inflammations, and St. Anthony’s Fire, as also the gout, either applied by itself, or in a poultice with Barley meal.
    QUO-000066Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. SwellingsCLM-001792
    as also to help the redness of the eyes, and swellings of privities, and of the breasts before they be grown too much.
    QUO-001146Papers 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.