Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Over 400 Herbs and Their Uses

Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Over 400 Herbs and Their Uses

by Nicholas Culpeper
Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Over 400 Herbs and Their Uses

Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Over 400 Herbs and Their Uses

by Nicholas Culpeper

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Overview

From Artichoke to Rhubarb- Vine to Hawthorn- The Complete Herbal provides the most comprehensive listings of herbs and their uses in existence.

First published over 350 years ago by herbalist and apothecary Nicholas Culpeper, this encyclopaedic guide had an extensive impact on modern holistic medicine. This includes his description of the qualities of foxglove, later used to treat heart conditions.

In this illustrated edition, over 400 herbs are described in detail, along with their 'government and virtues', remedies, and cautions. Although much of the medical advice must be taken with a pinch of salt, the engaging tone, enthusiasm, and expertise of the author are irresistible and highly entertaining.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781398803305
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Publication date: 10/09/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 877,469
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Nicholas Culpeper (1618-54) was a physician and herbalist during the reign of Elizabeth I, whose practice in East London was famous for treating the poor for no charge. His masterwork, The English Physician (known as Culpeper's Herbal) was published posthumously.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Aconitum 13

Adder's tongue 13

Agrimony 14

Water-agrimony 14

Black alder-tree 16

Common alder-tree 17

Ale-hoof 17

Alexander 18

Alheal 18

Alkanet 19

Almond-tree 20

Aloe 20

Amara-dulcis 21

Amaranthus 21

Anemone 22

Angelica 22

Archangel 23

Garden arrach 24

Arrach, wild and stinking 24

Arsesmart 25

Artichoke 26

Asarabacca 26

Ash-tree 27

Asparagus 27

Prickly asparagus 27

Avens 28

Balsam-tree 29

Barberry 30

Barley 30

Garden, or sweet basil 31

Bawm 31

Bay-tree 32

Beans 33

French-beans 33

Lady's bed-straw 34

Beech-tree 35

Beets 35

Water-betony 36

Wood-betony 36

Bilberries 37

Birch-tree 38

Bird's foot 39

Bishop's weed 39

Bistort 40

Black bindweed 40

Black-thorn 41

Blight 41

Blue-bottle 42

Borage and bugloss 43

Bramble 43

Brank-ursine 44

Briony 44

Brooklime 45

Broom and broom-rape 47

Buckshorn 48

Buckshorn plantain 48

Buck-wheat 49

Bugle 50

Burdock 50

Burnet 51

Butcher's broom 52

Butter-bur 52

Byfoil 54

Cabbages and coleworts 54

Sea-colewort 55

Calamint 55

Water-caltrops 56

Camomile 56

Wild campions 57

Carduus benedictus 58

Carob-tree 58

Carraway 59

Carrot 59

Cassia-fistula 60

Cedar-tree 60

Celandine 63

Smaller celandine 63

Ordinary smaller centaury 64

Cherry-tree 65

Winter cherries 65

Chervil 67

Sweet chervil 67

Chestnut-tree 68

Earth chestnuts 68

Chich pease 69

Chickweed 69

Cinquefoil 70

Cistus 71

Cives 72

Clary 72

Wild clary 73

Cleavers 73

Clown's woundwort 74

Cockle 74

Cock's head 75

Cocoa-nut tree 75

Coffee 77

Coloquintida 78

Coltsfoot 78

Columbines 79

Comfrey 79

Coral 81

Coral-wort 81

Coriander 82

Cornel-tree 83

Costmary 83

Cowslips 83

Crab's claws 84

Black cresses 84

Sciatica cresses 85

Water-cresses 85

Cross-wort 86

Crowfoot 87

Cubebs 87

Cuckow-point 87

Cucumbers 88

Cudweed 89

Red, white, and black currants 89

Cypress-tree 90

White daffodil 91

Yellow daffodil 92

Daisies 93

Dandelion 93

Darnel 94

Date-tree 94

Devil's bit 95

Dictamnum of candy 96

False dictamnum 96

Dill 97

Dock 98

Dodder of thyme 98

Dog's grass 99

Double-tongue 99

Dove's foot 100

Down 100

Dragons 101

Duck's meat 101

Dunch-down 101

Dwarf plane-tree 102

Eglantine 102

Elder-tree 102

Dwarf-elder 104

Elecampane 104

Elm-tree 105

Endive 105

Eringo 107

Erysimum 107

Euphorbium 108

Eye-bright 108

Featherfew 109

Fennel 109

Sow-fennel 110

Fenugreek 110

Fern 111

Water-fern 111

Fig-tree 112

Fig-wort 112

Filapendula 113

Fir-tree 114

Fistic-nuts 114

Flax 116

Flax-weed 116

Fleabane 117

Fleawort 117

Flixweed 118

Flower-de-luce 119

Fluellin 119

Foxglove 120

Fumitory 121

Furze-bush 121

Galingal 122

Gall-oak 122

Garlic 123

Gentian 124

Germander 125

Clove gilliflowers 125

Stock gilliflowers 126

Wall, or yellow gilliflowers 126

Stinking gladwin 127

Golden rod 128

Gooseberry-bush 129

Gout-herb 129

Winter-green 130

Gromel 130

Groundsel 131

Hart's tongue 132

Hawk-weed 132

Hawthorn 133

Hasel-nut 134

Heart's ease 134

Hedge-hyssop 134

Black hellebore 135

Hemlock 136

Hemp 137

Hen-bane 137

Herb Robert 138

Herb truelove 138

Hoarhound 139

Holly 140

Honey-wort 140

Hops 141

Horse-tail 141

Hound's tongue 142

Houseleek 143

Hyssop 144

Indian leaf 144

Ivy 145

St John's wort 145

Jujube-tree 146

Juniper-bush 148

Kali 149

Kidney-wort 150

Knap-weed 151

Knot-grass 151

Ladies' mantle 152

Ladies' smock 153

Larch-tree, and its agaric 153

Lavender 154

Lavender cotton 154

Lemon-tree 155

Lentiles 156

Lettuce 157

Lily of the valley 157

Water-lily 159

White lilies 159

Line, or linden-tree 160

Liquorice 161

Liver-wort 161

Loose-strife 162

Loose-strife, with spiked heads of flowers 162

Lovage 163

Love-apple 164

Lung-flower 165

Lung-wort 166

Lupines 166

Madder 167

Mad-wort 168

Maiden-hair 168

Ordinary white maiden-hair 168

Golden maiden-hair 169

Mallows and marsh-mallows 169

Mandrake 171

Maple-tree 172

Marigolds 172

Sweet marjoram 172

Wild marjoram 173

Master-wort 173

Mastic-tree 175

Sweet maudlin 176

May-weed 176

Mealy-tree 177

Medlar 178

Melilot 179

Dog's mercury 179

French mercury 180

Mint 181

Mistletoe 182

Money-wort 183

Moon-wort 184

Moss 185

Mother-wort 185

Mouse-ear 186

Mugwort 188

Mulberry-tree 189

Mullein 189

Mushroom 190

Mustard 191

Hedge-mustard 191

Nailwort 192

Navel-wort 193

Nep 193

Nettles 194

Nightshade 194

Deadly nightshade 195

Woody nightshade 195

Nipplewort 196

Nutmeg-tree, and mace 196

Oak 197

Oats 197

Olive-tree 198

One-blade 200

Onions 200

Orange-tree 201

Orchis 202

Orpine 203

Parsley 203

Parsley-pert 204

Parsnip 205

Cow-parsnip 205

Peach-tree 206

Pear-tree 206

Pellitory of Spain 208

Pellitory of the wall 209

Penny-royal 210

Peony 210

Pepper 211

Pepper-wort 213

Periwinkle 214

St Peter's wort 214

Pimpernel 215

Ground-pine 216

Pitch and tar 216

Pitch-tree 217

Plantain 218

Plums 218

Polypody of the oak 219

Pomecitron-tree 220

Pomegranate-tree 221

Poplar-tree 222

Poppy 224

Primroses 226

Privet 226

Purslain 227

Queen of the meadows 227

Quick-grass 228

Quince-tree 230

Radish, and horse-radish 231

Ragwort 231

Rattle-grass 232

Sweet, or aromatical reed 233

Rest-harrow 235

Rhubarb 236

Monk's rhubarb 237

Bastard rhubarb 237

Rice 239

Rocket 240

Winter rocket 240

Rosa soils 242

Rosemary 242

Roses 243

Garden rue 246

Meadow rue 246

Rupture-wort 247

Rushes 247

Rye 248

Saffron 248

Sage 248

Wood-sage 249

Samphire 249

Sanicle 250

Saracens consound 250

Sarsaparilla 252

Sauce-alone 254

Saunders 254

Savin 255

Winter and summer savoury 255

Burnet-saxifrage 256

Common white-saxifrage 256

Scabious 257

Scammony 258

Scurvy-grass 260

Sebesten 261

Wild sebesten 261

Self-heal 262

Sena 262

Service-tree 263

Shepherd's purse 263

Smallage 263

Solomon's seal 264

Sope-wort 264

Sorrel 265

Wood-sorrel 265

Southernwood 266

Sow-thistles 268

Spignel 268

Spikenard 269

Spleen-wort 269

Star-thistle 269

Stonecrop 271

Storax-tree 271

Strawberries 272

Succory 274

Swallow-wort 274

Sycamore-tree 275

Tamarisk-tree 276

Garden tansey 276

Wild tansey 277

Thistles 277

Fullers thistle 278

Melancholy thistle 278

Our Lady's thistle 280

Woolly, or cotton thistle 280

Thorough-wax 281

Thyme 282

Wild thyme 282

Tobacco 282

Tormentil 283

Treacle-mustard 283

Heart-trefoil 285

Meadow-trefoil 285

Pearl-trefoil 285

Turnsol 286

Tutsan 286

Garden valerian 287

Vervain 288

Vine 288

Violets 288

Viper's bugloss 289

Wall-flowers 289

Walnut-tree 290

Wheat 293

Willow-tree 293

Woad 293

Wold, weld, or dyers weed 294

Wolf-bane 294

Woodbine 295

Wormwood 295

Yarrow 295

Yucca 296

Of the gathering, drying and preserving of plants, herbs, and flowers 298

Index 301

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