Senecio vulgaris
HRB-0142Entry “GROUNDSEL” 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 Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
What it does, in Culpeper: PurgeMakes you vomit
It helps also the sciatica, griping of the belly, the cholic, defects of the liver, and provokes women’s courses.
The distilled water of the herb performs well all the aforesaid cures, but especially for inflammations or watering of the eyes, by reason of the defluxion of rheum unto them.
It is good against the jaundice and falling sickness, being taken in wine;
It provokes urine, expels gravel in the reins or kidneys;
The distilled water of the herb performs well all the aforesaid cures, but especially for inflammations or watering of the eyes, by reason of the defluxion of rheum unto them.
It is good against the jaundice and falling sickness, being taken in wine;
It helps also the sciatica, griping of the belly, the cholic, defects of the liver, and provokes women’s courses.
if not, purging:
yet causes vomiting if the stomach be afflicted;
The juice of the herb, or as (Dioscorides saith) the leaves and flowers, with some fine Frankincense in powder, used in wounds of the body, nerves or sinews, doth singularly help to heal them.
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.