Ulmus
HRB-0110Entry “THE ELM TREE” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
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 Saturn, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
The said bark ground with brine or pickle, until it come to the form of a poultice, and laid on the place pained with the gout, gives great ease.
The leaves or the bark used with vinegar, cures scurf and leprosy very effectually;
and if cloaths be often wet therein, and applied to the ruptures of children, it heals them, if they be well bound up with a truss.
The leaves or the bark used with vinegar, cures scurf and leprosy very effectually;
The decoction of the bark of the root, fomented, mollifies hard tumours, and the shrinking of the sinews.
The decoction of the bark of the root, fomented, mollifies hard tumours, and the shrinking of the sinews.
The leaves thereof bruised and applied, heal green wounds, being bound thereon with its own bark.
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.