Burnet Saxifrage

Pimpinella saxifraga

HRB-0268Entry “BURNET 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.

Substance of concernFuranocoumarins: the juice on skin burns in sunlight.EFSA: Bergapten, Isopimpinellin, Methoxsalen and 6 moreEFSA’s list of substances, not a danger rating. Checked 26 October 2026.

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

Culpeper’s claims about it: 5, under 5 headings

  1. ConvulsionsCLM-000540
    Castoreum being boiled in the distilled water thereof, is singularly good to be given to those that are troubled with cramps and convulsions.
    QUO-000456Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. CrampCLM-000643
    Castoreum being boiled in the distilled water thereof, is singularly good to be given to those that are troubled with cramps and convulsions.
    QUO-000456Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. StomachCLM-001649
    and likewise helps the windy pains of the mother, and to procure their courses, and to break and void the stone in the kidneys, to digest cold, viscous, and tough phlegm in the stomach, and is an especial remedy against all kind of venom.
    QUO-001081Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. StoneCLM-001744
    and likewise helps the windy pains of the mother, and to procure their courses, and to break and void the stone in the kidneys, to digest cold, viscous, and tough phlegm in the stomach, and is an especial remedy against all kind of venom.
    QUO-001081Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. WoundsCLM-002238
    The juice of the herb dropped into the most grievous wounds of the head, dries up their moisture, and heals them quickly.
    QUO-001393Papers 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.