Orchis

Orchis

HRB-0214Entry “ORCHIS” 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.

Historical correspondence. Ruled by Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 2, under 2 headings

1. King’s-evilCLM-001118

   as also, being bruised and applied to the place, to heal the king’s evil.

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2. WormsCLM-002122

   They are held to kill worms in children;

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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.