Rupture-Wort

Herniaria glabra

HRB-0254Entry “RUPTURE-WORT” 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.

Substance of concernEFSA: Triterpene saponinsEFSA’s list of substances, not a danger rating. Checked 26 October 2026.

Historical correspondence. Ruled by Saturn, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

What it does, in Culpeper: Stops vomiting

Culpeper’s claims about it: 12, under 12 headings

  1. GravelCLM-000826
    It doth also most assuredly help those that have the stranguary, or are troubled with the stone or gravel in the reins or bladder.
    QUO-000641Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. JaundiceCLM-001047
    The same also helps stitches in the sides, griping pains of the stomach or belly, the obstructions of the liver, and cures the yellow jaundice;
    QUO-000779Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. Jaundice — YellowCLM-001094
    The same also helps stitches in the sides, griping pains of the stomach or belly, the obstructions of the liver, and cures the yellow jaundice;
    QUO-000779Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. LiverCLM-001222
    The same also helps stitches in the sides, griping pains of the stomach or belly, the obstructions of the liver, and cures the yellow jaundice;
    QUO-000779Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Pain in the StomachCLM-0023871850 index, p. 160
    The same also helps stitches in the sides, griping pains of the stomach or belly, the obstructions of the liver, and cures the yellow jaundice;
    QUO-000779Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. RupturesCLM-0014751850 index
    for it is found by experience to cure the rupture, not only in children but also in elder persons, if the disease be not too inveterate, by taking a dram of the powder of the dried herb every day in wine, or a decoction made and drank for certain days together.
    QUO-001006Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. StomachCLM-001643
    The same also helps stitches in the sides, griping pains of the stomach or belly, the obstructions of the liver, and cures the yellow jaundice;
    QUO-000779Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. StoneCLM-001740
    It doth also most assuredly help those that have the stranguary, or are troubled with the stone or gravel in the reins or bladder.
    QUO-000641Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  9. UlcersCLM-001996
    It also dries up the moisture of fistulous ulcers, or any other that are foul and spreading.
    QUO-001259Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  10. Vomiting (to stay)CLM-002047
    vomitings also, and the gonorrhea, being taken any of the ways aforesaid.
    QUO-001289Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  11. WormsCLM-002131
    likewise it kills also the worms in children.
    QUO-001338Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  12. WoundsCLM-002232
    Being outwardly applied, it conglutinates wounds notably, and helps much to stay defluctions of rheum from the head to the eyes, nose, and teeth, being bruised green and bound thereto;
    QUO-001388Papers 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.