Nailwort, Or Whitlow-Grass

Draba verna

HRB-0207Entry “NAILWORT, OR WHITLOW-GRASS” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850

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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. Felons of the FingerCLM-0023081850 index, p. 126
    It is held to be exceedingly good for those imposthumes in the joints, and under the nails, which they call Whitlows, Felons, Andicorns and Nail-wheals.
    QUO-000669Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. ImposthumesCLM-000866
    It is held to be exceedingly good for those imposthumes in the joints, and under the nails, which they call Whitlows, Felons, Andicorns and Nail-wheals.
    QUO-000669Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. WhitlowsCLM-0020811850 index
    It is held to be exceedingly good for those imposthumes in the joints, and under the nails, which they call Whitlows, Felons, Andicorns and Nail-wheals.
    QUO-000669Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

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.