Kidneywort, Or Wall Pennyroyal Or Wall Pennywort

Umbilicus rupestris

HRB-0165Entry “KIDNEYWORT, OR WALL PENNYROYAL OR WALL PENNYWORT” 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.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 12, under 12 headings, 1 where he says it harms or causes

  1. Anthony’s FireCLM-000091
    the herb, juice, or distilled water thereof, outwardly applied, heals pimples, St. Anthony’s fire, and other outward heats.
    QUO-000071Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Bleeding (to stay)CLM-000169
    it is also used in green wounds to stay the blood, and to heal them quickly.
    QUO-000146Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Bowels (obstructions of)CLM-000292
    The juice or the distilled water being drank, is very effectual for all inflammations and unnatural heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach, a hot liver, or the bowels:
    QUO-000252Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. ChilblainsCLM-000445
    healing kibes and chilblains if they be bathed with the juice, or anointed with ointment made thereof, and some of the skin of the leaf upon them:
    QUO-000376Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. DropsyCLM-000683
    it also provokes urine, is available for the dropsy, and helps to break the stone.
    QUO-000547Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. InflammationsCLM-000923
    The juice or the distilled water being drank, is very effectual for all inflammations and unnatural heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach, a hot liver, or the bowels:
    QUO-000252Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. King’s-evilCLM-001114
    It is no less effectual to give ease to the pains of the gout, the sciatica, and helps the kernels or knots in the neck or throat, called the king’s evil:
    QUO-000797Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. LiverCLM-001196
    The juice or the distilled water being drank, is very effectual for all inflammations and unnatural heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach, a hot liver, or the bowels:
    QUO-000252Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  9. PilesCLM-001363
    Being used as a bath, or made into an ointment, it cools the painful piles or hæmorrhoidal veins.
    QUO-000921Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  10. StomachCLM-001607
    The juice or the distilled water being drank, is very effectual for all inflammations and unnatural heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach, a hot liver, or the bowels:
    QUO-000252Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  11. StoneCLM-001716
    The said juice or water helps to heal sore kidneys, torn or fretted by the stone, or exulcerated within;
    QUO-001110Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  12. WoundsCLM-002202
    it is also used in green wounds to stay the blood, and to heal them quickly.
    QUO-000146Papers 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.