Viper’s Bugloss

Echium vulgare

HRB-0310Entry “VIPER’S BUGLOSS” 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 Sun, 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: 5, under 5 headings

  1. AguesCLM-000057
    it tempers the blood, and allays hot fits of agues.
    QUO-000057Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Blood (to cleanse)CLM-000207
    it tempers the blood, and allays hot fits of agues.
    QUO-000057Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. MelancholyCLM-0013291850 index
    The root or seed is thought to be most effectual to comfort the heart, and expel sadness, or causeless melancholy;
    QUO-000905Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. Milk (to increase in Nurses)CLM-0023741850 index, pp. 221, 250
    The seed drank in wine, procures abundance of milk in women’s breasts.
    QUO-001434Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. Poison (to expel)CLM-001426
    as also against poison, or poisonous herbs.
    QUO-000973Papers 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.