Petroselinum crispum
HRB-0217Entry “PARSLEY” 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 Mercury, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
helps to provoke urine and women’s courses, to break wind both in the stomach and bowels, and doth a little open the body, but the root much more.
and also takes away black and blue marks coming of bruises or falls.
it is also effectual against the venom of any poisonous creature, and the danger that comes to them that have the lethargy, and is as good against the cough.
Tragus sets down an excellent medicine to help the jaundice and falling sickness, the dropsy, and stone in the kidneys, in this manner:
Galen commended it against the falling sickness, and to provoke urine mightily;
Tragus sets down an excellent medicine to help the jaundice and falling sickness, the dropsy, and stone in the kidneys, in this manner:
It opens obstructions both of liver and spleen, and is therefore accounted one of the five opening roots.
It opens obstructions both of liver and spleen, and is therefore accounted one of the five opening roots.
is very comfortable to the stomach;
The seed is effectual to provoke urine and women’s courses, to expel wind, to break the stone, and ease the pains and torments thereof;
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
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