Asplenium ceterach
HRB-0281Entry “SPLEENWORT, CETERACH, OR HEART’S TONGUE” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
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It helps the stranguary, and wasteth the stone in the bladder, and is good against the yellow jaundice and the hiccough;
It helps the stranguary, and wasteth the stone in the bladder, and is good against the yellow jaundice and the hiccough;
Matthiolus saith, That if a dram of the dust that is on the backside of the leaves be mixed with half a dram of amber in powder, and taken with the juice of purslain or plantain, it helps the gonorrhea speedily, and that the herb and root being boiled and taken, helps all melancholy diseases, and those especially that arise from the French diseases.
It helps the stranguary, and wasteth the stone in the bladder, and is good against the yellow jaundice and the hiccough;
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
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