Nymphaea alba
HRB-0173Entry “WATER LILY” 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 Moon, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
the leaves do cool all inflammations, both outward and inward heat of agues;
The seed as well as the root is effectual to stay fluxes of blood or humours, either of wounds or of the belly;
the syrup helps much to procure rest, and to settle the brain of frantic persons, by cooling the hot distemperature of the head.
the leaves do cool all inflammations, both outward and inward heat of agues;
The oil made of the flowers, as oil of Roses is made, is profitably used to cool hot tumours, and to ease the pains, and help the sores.
The oil made of the flowers, as oil of Roses is made, is profitably used to cool hot tumours, and to ease the pains, and help the sores.
The seed as well as the root is effectual to stay fluxes of blood or humours, either of wounds or of the belly;
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.