Helleborus niger
HRB-0152Entry “BLACK HELLEBORE” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850
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
The roots are very effectual against all melancholy diseases, especially such as are of long standing, as quartan agues and madness;
The roots are very effectual against all melancholy diseases, especially such as are of long standing, as quartan agues and madness;
it helps the falling sickness, the leprosy, both the yellow and black jaundice, the gout, sciatica, and convulsions;
If a beast be troubled with a cough, or have taken any poison, they bore a hole through the ear, and put a piece of the root in it, this will help him in 24 hours time.
it helps the falling sickness, the leprosy, both the yellow and black jaundice, the gout, sciatica, and convulsions;
it helps the falling sickness, the leprosy, both the yellow and black jaundice, the gout, sciatica, and convulsions;
it helps the falling sickness, the leprosy, both the yellow and black jaundice, the gout, sciatica, and convulsions;
The roots are very effectual against all melancholy diseases, especially such as are of long standing, as quartan agues and madness;
If a beast be troubled with a cough, or have taken any poison, they bore a hole through the ear, and put a piece of the root in it, this will help him in 24 hours time.
also being beaten into powder, and strewed upon foul ulcers, it consumes the dead flesh, and instantly heals 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.