Mithridate Mustard

Lepidium campestre

HRB-0295Entry “MITHRIDATE MUSTARD” 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.

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

What it does, in Culpeper: Counter-poison

Culpeper’s claims about it: 2, under 2 headings

1. ImposthumesCLM-000875

   It breaks inward imposthumes, being taken inwardly;

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2. Poison (to expel)CLM-001423

   It is an especial ingredient in mithridate and treacle, being of itself an antidote resisting poison, venom and putrefaction.

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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.