Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna

HRB-0147Entry “HAWTHORN” 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 Mars, 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. DropsyCLM-000679
    The seeds in the berries beaten to powder being drank in wine, are held singularly good against the stone, and are good for the dropsy.
    QUO-000543Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. StoneCLM-001711
    The seeds in the berries beaten to powder being drank in wine, are held singularly good against the stone, and are good for the dropsy.
    QUO-000543Papers 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.