Parsley Piert, Or Parsley Break Stone

Aphanes arvensis

HRB-0218Entry “PARSLEY PIERT, OR PARSLEY BREAK STONE” 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: 2, under 2 headings

  1. GravelCLM-0008211850 index
    it would bring away gravel from the kidneys insensibly, and without pain.
    QUO-000637Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. StoneCLM-0017301850 index
    Its operation is very prevalent to provoke urine, and to break the stone.
    QUO-001117Papers 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.