Male And Female Peony

Paeonia

HRB-0226Entry “MALE AND FEMALE PEONY” 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 Sun, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 3, under 3 headings

  1. Falling SicknessCLM-000739
    The roots of the Male Peony, fresh gathered, having been found by experience to cure the falling sickness;
    QUO-000583Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. MelancholyCLM-001323
    a disease which melancholy persons are subject unto:
    QUO-000900Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Sleep (to procure)CLM-001551
    The black seed also taken before bed-time, and in the morning, is very effectual for such as in their sleep are troubled with the disease called Ephialtes, or Incubus, but we do commonly call it the Night-mare:
    QUO-001030Papers 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.