Garden-Patience, Or Monk’s Rhubarb

Rumex patientia

HRB-0250Entry “GARDEN-PATIENCE, OR MONK’S RHUBARB” 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.

What it does, in Culpeper: Purge

Culpeper’s claims about it: 1, under 1 heading

  1. PurgingCLM-001443
    _Descript._] THIS is a Dock bearing the name of Rhubarb for some purging quality therein, and grows up with large tall stalks, set with somewhat broad and long, fair, green leaves, not dented at all.
    QUO-000984Papers 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.