Hyssopus officinalis
HRB-0155Entry “HYSSOP” 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 Jupiter, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
being boiled with wine, it is good to wash inflammations, and takes away the black and blue spots and marks that come by strokes, bruises, or falls, being applied with warm water.
It helps to expectorate tough phlegm, and is effectual in all cold griefs or diseases of the chests or lungs, being taken either in syrup or licking medicine.
Dioscorides saith, that Hyssop boiled with rue and honey, and drank, helps those that are troubled with coughs, shortness of breath, wheezing and rheumatic distillation upon the lungs;
and being taken with figs and nitre, helps the dropsy and spleen;
It helps those that have the falling sickness, which way soever it be applied.
being boiled with wine, it is good to wash inflammations, and takes away the black and blue spots and marks that come by strokes, bruises, or falls, being applied with warm water.
It amends and cherishes the native colour of the body, spoiled by the yellow jaundice;
It amends and cherishes the native colour of the body, spoiled by the yellow jaundice;
Dioscorides saith, that Hyssop boiled with rue and honey, and drank, helps those that are troubled with coughs, shortness of breath, wheezing and rheumatic distillation upon the lungs;
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
Dioscorides saith, that Hyssop boiled with rue and honey, and drank, helps those that are troubled with coughs, shortness of breath, wheezing and rheumatic distillation upon the lungs;
It is an excellent medicine for the quinsy, or swellings in the throat, to wash and gargle it, being boiled in figs;
it helps the tooth-ache, being boiled in vinegar and gargled therewith.
Dioscorides saith, that Hyssop boiled with rue and honey, and drank, helps those that are troubled with coughs, shortness of breath, wheezing and rheumatic distillation upon the lungs;
and with honey, kills worms in the belly;
The green herb bruised and a little sugar put thereto, doth quickly heal any cut or green wounds, being thereunto applied.
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.