Saracen’s Confound, Or Saracen’s Woundwort

Senecio sarracenicus

HRB-0263Entry “SARACEN’S CONFOUND, OR SARACEN’S WOUNDWORT” 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: 10, under 10 headings

1. AguesCLM-000047

   and being boiled in water, it helps continual agues;

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2. BruisesCLM-000382

   for all inward ulcers of the reins, mouth or throat, and inward wounds and bruises, likewise for such sores as happen in the privy parts of men and women;

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3. DropsyCLM-000697

   whereby it is good for the yellow jaundice and for the dropsy in the beginning of it;

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4. JaundiceCLM-001049

   whereby it is good for the yellow jaundice and for the dropsy in the beginning of it;

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5. Jaundice — YellowCLM-001096

   whereby it is good for the yellow jaundice and for the dropsy in the beginning of it;

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6. LiverCLM-001225

   Being boiled in wine, and drank, it helps the indisposition of the liver, and freeth the gall from obstructions;

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7. Sore ThroatCLM-0024181850 index, p. 165

   for all inward ulcers of the reins, mouth or throat, and inward wounds and bruises, likewise for such sores as happen in the privy parts of men and women;

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8. StomachCLM-001645

   being steeped in wine, and then distilled, the water thereof drank, is singularly good to ease all gnawings in the stomach, or other pains of the body, as also the pains of the mother:

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9. UlcersCLM-002000

   for all inward ulcers of the reins, mouth or throat, and inward wounds and bruises, likewise for such sores as happen in the privy parts of men and women;

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10. WoundsCLM-002237

    Among the Germans, this wound herb is preferred before all others of the same quality.

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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.