True Love

No Latin name recorded

HRB-0344An index name, “True Love”: 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 · Berries, rootHerb true-love, by our identification. Saponins that break down red blood cells; the berries and root are the most toxic parts. Cramps, vomiting, dizziness and headache; an old herbal says overdoses have killed children.EFSA: pennogenin tetraglycoside · Culpeper doses the seeds or berries daily for 20 days, after Matthiolus.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 2, under 2 headings

  1. Felons of the FingerCLM-0023071850 index, p. 94

    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
  2. TumoursCLM-0024421850 index, pp. 91, 359, 360

    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.