Stavesacre

No Latin name recorded

HRB-0341An index name, “Stavesacre”: 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 · SeedsSeeds of a larkspur, Delphinium staphisagria: delphinine, an aconite-like poison that stops breathing. Even used on the skin against lice, it once killed a child.Identified by us; the 1850 index gives only the name

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

  1. Lice (in the head, to kill)CLM-0023501850 index, p. 250

    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.