The Vine

Vitis vinifera

HRB-0308Entry “THE VINE” 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.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 5, under 5 headings

1. Heart-BurnCLM-0023371850 index, p. 246

   Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.

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2. InflammationsCLM-000966

   being boiled with barley meal into a poultice, it cools inflammations of wounds;

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3. StoneCLM-001757

   Also the tears of the Vine, drank two or three spoonfuls at a time, breaks the stone in the bladder.

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4. Teeth (to whiten)CLM-0024391850 index, pp. 246, 397

   The ashes of the burnt branches will make teeth that are as black as a coal, to be as white as snow, if you but every morning rub them with it.

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5. WoundsCLM-002253

   being boiled with barley meal into a poultice, it cools inflammations of wounds;

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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.