Verbena officinalis
HRB-0307Entry “VERVAIN” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
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.
It is held to be good against the biting of serpents, and other venomous beasts, against the plague, and both tertian and quartan agues.
It is held to be good against the biting of serpents, and other venomous beasts, against the plague, and both tertian and quartan agues.
helps the cough, wheezings, and shortness of breath, and all the defects of the reins and bladder, expelling the gravel and stone.
The distilled water of the herb when it is in full strength, dropped into the eyes, cleanses them from films, clouds, or mists, that darken the sight, and wonderfully strengthens the optic nerves.
It helps the yellow jaundice, the dropsy and the gout;
It consolidates and heals also all wounds, both inward and outward, stays bleedings, and used with some honey, heals all old ulcers and fistulas in the legs or other parts of the body;
helps the cough, wheezings, and shortness of breath, and all the defects of the reins and bladder, expelling the gravel and stone.
It helps the yellow jaundice, the dropsy and the gout;
It helps the yellow jaundice, the dropsy and the gout;
it kills and expels worms in the belly, and causes a good colour in the face and body, strengthens as well as corrects the diseases of the stomach, liver, and spleen;
or used with hog’s grease, it helps the swellings and pains of the secret parts in man or woman, also for the piles or hæmorrhoids;
helps the cough, wheezings, and shortness of breath, and all the defects of the reins and bladder, expelling the gravel and stone.
The leaves bruised, or the juice of them mixed with some vinegar, doth wonderfully cleanse the skin, and takes away morphew, freckles, fistulas, and other such like inflamations and deformities of the skin in any parts of the body.
it kills and expels worms in the belly, and causes a good colour in the face and body, strengthens as well as corrects the diseases of the stomach, liver, and spleen;
helps the cough, wheezings, and shortness of breath, and all the defects of the reins and bladder, expelling the gravel and stone.
or used with hog’s grease, it helps the swellings and pains of the secret parts in man or woman, also for the piles or hæmorrhoids;
It consolidates and heals also all wounds, both inward and outward, stays bleedings, and used with some honey, heals all old ulcers and fistulas in the legs or other parts of the body;
helps the cough, wheezings, and shortness of breath, and all the defects of the reins and bladder, expelling the gravel and stone.
it kills and expels worms in the belly, and causes a good colour in the face and body, strengthens as well as corrects the diseases of the stomach, liver, and spleen;
It consolidates and heals also all wounds, both inward and outward, stays bleedings, and used with some honey, heals all old ulcers and fistulas in the legs or other parts of the body;
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.