Thymus vulgaris
HRB-0298Entry “THYME” in the 1850 textNot in the 1652 first edition: added by Culpeper in 1653 or by a later editor up to 1850
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 Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
neither is there scarce a better remedy growing for that disease in children which they commonly call the Chin-cough, than it is.
neither is there scarce a better remedy growing for that disease in children which they commonly call the Chin-cough, than it is.
It is a noble strengthener of the lungs, as notable a one as grows;
It purges the body of phlegm, and is an excellent remedy for shortness of breath.
The herb taken any way inwardly, comforts the stomach much, and expels wind.
An ointment made of it takes away hot swellings and warts, helps the sciatica and dullness of sight, and takes away pains and hardness of the spleen.
An ointment made of it takes away hot swellings and warts, helps the sciatica and dullness of sight, and takes away pains and hardness of the spleen.
The herb taken any way inwardly, comforts the stomach much, and expels wind.
It kills worms in the belly, and being a notable herb of Venus, provokes the terms, gives safe and speedy delivery to women in travail, and brings away the after birth.
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.