Gentiana lutea
HRB-0133Entry “GENTIAN, FELWORT, OR BALDMONY” 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 helps agues of all sorts, and the yellow jaundice, as also the bots in cattle;
The powder of the dry roots helps the biting of mad dogs and venomous beasts, opens obstructions of the liver, and restores an appetite for their meat to such as have lost it.
The same is very profitable for such as are troubled with cramps and convulsions, to drink the decoction:
The same is very profitable for such as are troubled with cramps and convulsions, to drink the decoction:
it strengthens the stomach exceedingly, helps digestion, comforts the heart, and preserves it against faintings and swoonings:
It helps agues of all sorts, and the yellow jaundice, as also the bots in cattle;
It helps agues of all sorts, and the yellow jaundice, as also the bots in cattle;
the same is excellently good to be taken inwardly for the king’s evil.
The powder of the dry roots helps the biting of mad dogs and venomous beasts, opens obstructions of the liver, and restores an appetite for their meat to such as have lost it.
it helps stitches, and griping pains in the sides;
They resist putrefactions, poison, and a more sure remedy cannot be found to prevent the pestilence than it is;
Also they say it breaks the stone, and helps ruptures most certainly:
it strengthens the stomach exceedingly, helps digestion, comforts the heart, and preserves it against faintings and swoonings:
it strengthens the stomach exceedingly, helps digestion, comforts the heart, and preserves it against faintings and swoonings:
Also they say it breaks the stone, and helps ruptures most certainly:
it is excellent in all cold diseases, and such as are troubled with tough phlegm, scabs, itch, or any fretting sores and ulcers;
it is an admirable remedy to kill the worms, by taking half a dram of the powder in a morning in any convenient liquor;
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.