Consolida-Major

No Latin name recorded

HRB-0325An index name, “Consolida-Major”: the 1850 index lists it, and the book has no entry under that name

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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.

⚠ Poisonous · Taken insideComfrey, by its old Latin name. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Case reports tie eating or drinking it to liver veno-occlusive disease, and in 2001 the FDA advised pulling comfrey products for internal use.The EMA accepts comfrey root on the skin for minor sprains and bruises (traditional use).EFSA: Echimidine, Intermedine, Lycopsamine and 2 more

Culpeper’s claims about it: 1, under 1 heading

  1. RupturesCLM-0024001850 index, p. 220

    Listed in the 1850 index under a name the book has no herbal entry for. No quotation is recorded.

    Papers 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.