Loosestrife Or Willow-Herb

Lysimachia vulgaris

HRB-0178Entry “LOOSESTRIFE OR WILLOW-HERB” 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: 3, under 3 headings

1. Bloody FluxCLM-000232

   This herb is good for all manner of bleeding at the mouth, nose, or wounds, and all fluxes of the belly, and the bloody-flux, given either to drink or taken by clysters;

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2. Sore EyesCLM-0024101850 index, p. 108

   Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

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3. WoundsCLM-002207

   This herb is good for all manner of bleeding at the mouth, nose, or wounds, and all fluxes of the belly, and the bloody-flux, given either to drink or taken by clysters;

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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.