Imperatoria ostruthium
HRB-0189Entry “MASTERWORT” 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 Mars, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
What it does, in Culpeper: PurgeCounter-poison
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
for the decoction in wine being gargled in the mouth, draws down much water and phlegm, from the brain, purging and easing it of what oppresses it.
It is effectual also against the dropsy, cramps, and falling sickness;
It is effectual also against the dropsy, cramps, and falling sickness;
It is effectual also against the dropsy, cramps, and falling sickness;
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
It also provokes urine, and helps to break the stone, and expel the gravel from the kidneys;
It is also used in a decoction with wine against all cold rheums, distillations upon the lungs, or shortness of breath, to be taken morning and evening.
It is of a rare quality against all sorts of cold poison, to be taken as there is cause;
for the decoction in wine being gargled in the mouth, draws down much water and phlegm, from the brain, purging and easing it of what oppresses it.
It is also used in a decoction with wine against all cold rheums, distillations upon the lungs, or shortness of breath, to be taken morning and evening.
The root of Masterwort is hotter than pepper, and very available in cold griefs and diseases both of the stomach and body, dissolving very powerfully upwards and downwards.
It also provokes urine, and helps to break the stone, and expel the gravel from the kidneys;
The juice hereof dropped, or tents dipped therein, and applied either to green wounds or filthy rotten ulcers, and those that come by envenomed weapons, doth soon cleanse and heal them.
The juice hereof dropped, or tents dipped therein, and applied either to green wounds or filthy rotten ulcers, and those that come by envenomed weapons, doth soon cleanse and heal them.
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.