Dianthus caryophyllus
HRB-0134Entry “CLOVE GILLIFLOWERS” 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 Jupiter, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
What it does, in Culpeper: Counter-poison
they are great strengtheners both of the brain and heart, and will therefore serve either for cordials or cephalics, as your occasion will serve.
To take now and then a little of either, strengthens nature much, in such as are in consumptions.
They are also excellently good in hot pestilent fevers, and expel poison.
They are also excellently good in hot pestilent fevers, and expel poison.
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
They are also excellently good in hot pestilent fevers, and expel poison.
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.