Gromel

Lithospermum officinale

HRB-0139Entry “GROMEL” 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.

⚠ Poisonous · Taken insidePyrrolizidine alkaloids (mainly intermedine) are confirmed in its root extract; an old herbal calls the gromwells among the most toxic of the borage family. No human case was found.EFSA: Lithosenine, acetyllithosenine

Historical correspondence. Ruled by Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 3, under 3 headings

  1. CholicCLM-000464
    and therefore if Mars cause the cholic or stone, as usually he doth, if in Virgo, this is your cure.
    QUO-000393Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. GravelCLM-000813
    These are accounted to be of as singular force as any herb or seed whatsoever, to break the stone and to void it, and the gravel either in the reins or bladder, as also to provoke urine being stopped, and to help stranguary.
    QUO-000630Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. StoneCLM-001709
    and therefore if Mars cause the cholic or stone, as usually he doth, if in Virgo, this is your cure.
    QUO-000393Papers 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.