No Latin name recorded
HRB-0199Entry “MOSSES” 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 Saturn, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
What it does, in Culpeper: Stops vomiting
The powder thereof taken in drink for some time together, is thought available for the dropsy.
The herb being bruised and boiled in water, and applied, eases all inflammations and pains coming from an hot cause;
The same being drank, stays the stomach that is troubled with casting, or hiccough;
The Ground Moss is held to be singularly good to break the stone, and to expel and drive it forth by urine, being boiled in wine and drank.
as also vomiting or bleeding, the powder thereof being taken in wine.
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
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.