Orpine

Hylotelephium telephium

HRB-0216Entry “ORPINE” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition

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

Culpeper’s claims about it: 10, under 10 headings

  1. Bloody FluxCLM-000238
    It stays the sharpness of humours in the bloody-flux, and other fluxes in the body, or in wounds.
    QUO-000204Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Orpine is seldom used in inward medicines with us, although Tragus saith from experience in Germany, that the distilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the stomach or bowels, or for ulcers in the lungs, liver, or other inward parts, as also in the matrix, and helps all those diseases, being drank for certain days together.
    QUO-000258Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. InflammationsCLM-000942
    It is used outwardly to cool any heat or inflammation upon any hurt or wound, and eases the pains of them;
    QUO-000718Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. LiverCLM-001207
    Orpine is seldom used in inward medicines with us, although Tragus saith from experience in Germany, that the distilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the stomach or bowels, or for ulcers in the lungs, liver, or other inward parts, as also in the matrix, and helps all those diseases, being drank for certain days together.
    QUO-000258Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. LungsCLM-001276
    Orpine is seldom used in inward medicines with us, although Tragus saith from experience in Germany, that the distilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the stomach or bowels, or for ulcers in the lungs, liver, or other inward parts, as also in the matrix, and helps all those diseases, being drank for certain days together.
    QUO-000258Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. QuinseyCLM-0023941850 index, p. 130

    Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

  7. RupturesCLM-001474
    it helps also ruptures and burstenness.
    QUO-001005Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. StomachCLM-001626
    Orpine is seldom used in inward medicines with us, although Tragus saith from experience in Germany, that the distilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the stomach or bowels, or for ulcers in the lungs, liver, or other inward parts, as also in the matrix, and helps all those diseases, being drank for certain days together.
    QUO-000258Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  9. UlcersCLM-001980
    Orpine is seldom used in inward medicines with us, although Tragus saith from experience in Germany, that the distilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the stomach or bowels, or for ulcers in the lungs, liver, or other inward parts, as also in the matrix, and helps all those diseases, being drank for certain days together.
    QUO-000258Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  10. WoundsCLM-002220
    It stays the sharpness of humours in the bloody-flux, and other fluxes in the body, or in wounds.
    QUO-000204Papers 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.