Lavender-Cotton

Santolina chamaecyparissus

HRB-0170Entry “LAVENDER-COTTON” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850

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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 Mercury, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

What it does, in Culpeper: Counter-poison

Culpeper’s claims about it: 2, under 2 headings

  1. Poison (to expel)CLM-001404
    It resists poison, putrefaction, and heals the biting of venomous beasts:
    QUO-000956Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. WormsCLM-0021171850 index
    The seed beaten into powder, and taken as worm-seed, kills the worms, not only in children, but also in people of riper years;
    QUO-001326Papers 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.