Origanum vulgare
HRB-0186Entry “WIND MARJORAM” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850
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
it restores the appetite being lost;
helps the cough, and consumption of the lungs;
helps the cough, and consumption of the lungs;
It provokes urine and the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice.
It provokes urine and the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice.
It provokes urine and the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice.
helps the cough, and consumption of the lungs;
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
it cleanses the body of choler, expels poison, and remedies the infirmities of the spleen;
It provokes urine and the terms in women, helps the dropsy, and the scurvy, scabs, itch, and yellow jaundice.
It strengthens the stomach and head much, there being scarce a better remedy growing for such as are troubled with a sour humour in the stomach;
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.