Rye

Secale cereale

HRB-0256Entry “RYE” 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.

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

  1. BoilsCLM-000272
    the bread and the leaven thereof ripens and breaks imposthumes, boils, and other swellings:
    QUO-000236Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. ImposthumesCLM-000871
    the bread and the leaven thereof ripens and breaks imposthumes, boils, and other swellings:
    QUO-000236Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. SwellingsCLM-001832
    the bread and the leaven thereof ripens and breaks imposthumes, boils, and other swellings:
    QUO-000236Papers 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.