Hazel-Nut

Corylus avellana

HRB-0145Entry “HAZEL-NUT” 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.

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

Culpeper’s claims about it: 2, under 2 headings

1. CoughsCLM-000568

   The parted kernels made into an electuary, or the milk drawn from the kernels with mead or honeyed water, is very good to help an old cough;

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2. LungsCLM-001258

   For, how can that which strengthens the lungs, cause shortness of breath?

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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.