The Common White Saxifrage

Saxifraga granulata

HRB-0267Entry “THE COMMON WHITE SAXIFRAGE” 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: 4, under 4 headings

  1. GravelCLM-000828
    It is very effectual to cleanse the reins and bladder, and to dissolve the stone engendered in them, and to expel it and the gravel by urine;
    QUO-000643Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. LungsCLM-001289
    It provokes also women’s courses, and frees and cleanses the stomach and lungs from thick and tough phlegm that trouble them.
    QUO-000883Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. StomachCLM-001648
    It provokes also women’s courses, and frees and cleanses the stomach and lungs from thick and tough phlegm that trouble them.
    QUO-000883Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. StoneCLM-001743
    It is very effectual to cleanse the reins and bladder, and to dissolve the stone engendered in them, and to expel it and the gravel by urine;
    QUO-000643Papers 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.