Meadow Trefoil, Or Honeysuckles

Trifolium pratense

HRB-0302Entry “MEADOW TREFOIL, OR HONEYSUCKLES” 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 Mercury, 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. Eyes — (inflammations of)CLM-000206
    it also allays the heat and blood shooting of them.
    QUO-000180Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. ImposthumesCLM-000876
    The seed and flowers boiled in water, and afterwards made into a poultice with some oil, and applied, helps hard swellings and imposthumes.
    QUO-000676Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. InflammationsCLM-000965
    If the herb be made into a poultice, and applied to inflammations, it will ease them.
    QUO-000733Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. SwellingsCLM-001843
    The seed and flowers boiled in water, and afterwards made into a poultice with some oil, and applied, helps hard swellings and imposthumes.
    QUO-000676Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. WoundsCLM-002249
    It is held likewise to be good for wounds, and to take away seed.
    QUO-001400Papers 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.