Wold, Weld, Or Dyer’s Weed

Reseda luteola

HRB-0313Entry “WOLD, WELD, OR DYER’S WEED” 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: 3, under 3 headings

  1. TumoursCLM-001885
    Matthiolus saith, that the root hereof cures tough phlegm, digests raw phlegm, thins gross humours, dissolves hard tumours, and opens obstructions.
    QUO-001194Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Tumours — (hard)CLM-001891
    Matthiolus saith, that the root hereof cures tough phlegm, digests raw phlegm, thins gross humours, dissolves hard tumours, and opens obstructions.
    QUO-001194Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. WoundsCLM-002255
    The people in some countries of this land, do use to bruise the herb, and lay it to cuts or wounds in the hands or legs, to heal them.
    QUO-001404Papers 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.