Dracunculus vulgaris
HRB-0107Entry “DRAGONS” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850
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.
What it does, in Culpeper: Counter-poison
it consumes cankers, and that flesh growing in the nostrils, which they call Polypus:
Also the distilled water being dropped into the eyes, takes away spots there, or the pin and web, and mends the dimness of sight;
it is excellently good against pestilence and poison.
it consumes cankers, and that flesh growing in the nostrils, which they call Polypus:
an ointment of it is held to be good in wounds and ulcers;
an ointment of it is held to be good in wounds and ulcers;
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.