Filipendula ulmaria
HRB-0238Entry “QUEEN OF THE MEADOWS, MEADOW SWEET, OR MEAD SWEET” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
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What it does, in Culpeper: Stops vomiting
It is said to alter and take away the fits of the quartan agues, and to make a merry heart, for which purpose some use the flowers, and some the leaves.
It is said to alter and take away the fits of the quartan agues, and to make a merry heart, for which purpose some use the flowers, and some the leaves.
It helps speedily those that are troubled with the cholic;
The water thereof helps the heat and inflammation in the eyes.
Outwardly applied, it helps old ulcers that are cankerous, or hollow fistulous, for which it is by many much commended, as also for the sores in the mouth or secret parts.
It is used to stay all manner of bleedings, fluxes, vomitings, and women’s courses, also their whites:
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
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