Jacobaea vulgaris
HRB-0241Entry “RAGWORT” 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 Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
stays the malignity of fretting and running cankers, and hollow fistulas, not suffering them to spread farther.
stays the malignity of fretting and running cankers, and hollow fistulas, not suffering them to spread farther.
and for swellings, hardness, or imposthumes, for it thoroughly cleanses and heals them;
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
as also the quinsy, and the king’s evil.
It helps to stay catarrhs, thin rheums, and defluxions from the head into the eyes, nose, or lungs.
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
and for swellings, hardness, or imposthumes, for it thoroughly cleanses and heals them;
The decoction of the herb is good to wash the mouth or throat that hath ulcers or sores therein:
The juice is found by experience to be singularly good to heal green wounds, and to cleanse and heal all old and filthy ulcers in the privities, and in other parts of the body, as also inward wounds and ulcers;
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.