Woodbine, Or Honey-Suckles

Lonicera periclymenum

HRB-0317Entry “WOODBINE, OR HONEY-SUCKLES” 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: 6, under 6 headings

  1. AsthmaCLM-0001241850 index
    I know no better cure for an asthma than this:
    QUO-000104Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. ConvulsionsCLM-000543
    besides, it takes away the evil of the spleen, provokes urine, procures speedy delivery of women in travail, helps cramps, convulsions, and palsies, and whatsoever griefs come of cold or stopping;
    QUO-000459Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. CrampCLM-000648
    besides, it takes away the evil of the spleen, provokes urine, procures speedy delivery of women in travail, helps cramps, convulsions, and palsies, and whatsoever griefs come of cold or stopping;
    QUO-000459Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. InflammationsCLM-000971
    All mouth-waters ought to be cooling and drying, but Honey Suckles are cleansing, consuming and digesting, and therefore fit for inflammations;
    QUO-000737Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. LungsCLM-001297
    It is an herb of Mercury, and appropriated to the lungs;
    QUO-000886Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. PalsiesCLM-001350
    besides, it takes away the evil of the spleen, provokes urine, procures speedy delivery of women in travail, helps cramps, convulsions, and palsies, and whatsoever griefs come of cold or stopping;
    QUO-000459Papers 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.