Sanicula europaea
HRB-0262Entry “SANICLE” 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.
It helps to stay women’s courses, and all other fluxes of blood, either by the mouth, urine, or stool, and lasks of the belly;
the ulcerations of the kidneys also, and the pains in the bowels, and gonorrhea, being boiled in wine or water, and drank.
It heals green wounds speedily, or any ulcers, imposthumes, or bleedings inward, also tumours in any part of the body;
and there is not found any herb that can give such present help either to man or beast, when the disease falleth upon the lungs or throat, and to heal up putrid malignant ulcers in the mouth, throat, and privities, by gargling or washing with the decoction of the leaves and roots made in water, and a little honey put thereto.
The same also is no less powerful to help any ruptures or burstings, used both inwardly and outwardly:
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
It heals green wounds speedily, or any ulcers, imposthumes, or bleedings inward, also tumours in any part of the body;
It heals green wounds speedily, or any ulcers, imposthumes, or bleedings inward, also tumours in any part of the body;
This is one of Venus’s herbs, to cure the wounds or mischiefs Mars inflicts upon the body of man.
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.