Hieracium
HRB-0146Entry “HAWK-WEED” 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 Saturn, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
What it does, in Culpeper: Counter-poison
for inflammations and the hot fits of agues.
as also inflammations, St. Anthony’s fire, and all pushes and eruptions, hot and salt phlegm.
it procures rest and sleep, hinders venery and venerous dreams, cooling heats, purges the stomach, increases blood, and helps the diseases of the reins and bladder.
The decoction of the herb taken in honey, digests the phlegm in the chest or lungs, and with Hyssop helps the cough.
The decoction thereof, and of wild Succory, made with wine, and taken, helps the wind cholic and hardness of the spleen;
The same applied with meal and fair water in manner of a poultice, to any place affected with convulsions, the cramp, and such as are out of joint, doth give help and ease.
The decoction of the herb taken in honey, digests the phlegm in the chest or lungs, and with Hyssop helps the cough.
The same applied with meal and fair water in manner of a poultice, to any place affected with convulsions, the cramp, and such as are out of joint, doth give help and ease.
A scruple of the dried root given in wine and vinegar, is profitable for those that have the dropsy.
Outwardly applied, it is singularly good for all the defects and diseases of the eyes, used with some women’s milk;
for inflammations and the hot fits of agues.
The decoction of the herb taken in honey, digests the phlegm in the chest or lungs, and with Hyssop helps the cough.
The juice thereof in wine, helps digestion, discusses wind, hinders crudities abiding in the stomach, and helps the difficulty of making water, the biting of venomous serpents, and stinging of the scorpion, if the herb be also outwardly applied to the place, and is very good against all other poisons.
it procures rest and sleep, hinders venery and venerous dreams, cooling heats, purges the stomach, increases blood, and helps the diseases of the reins and bladder.
Hawk-weed (saith Dioscorides) is cooling, somewhat drying and binding, and therefore good for the heat of the stomach, and gnawings therein;
and used with good success in fretting or creeping ulcers, especially in the beginning.
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.