Complete Herbal
Culpeper
Table of contents
- Original Epistle To the Reader
- Introduction
- Amara Dulcis
- All-Heal
- Alkanet
- Adder's Tongue or Serpent's Tongue
- Agrimony
- Water Agrimony
- Alehoof, or Ground-Ivy
- Alexander
- The Black Alder-Tree
- The Common Alder-Tree
- Angelica
- Amaranthus
- Anemone
- Garden Arrach
- Arrach, Wild And Stinking
- Archangel
- Arssmart
- Asarabacca
- Asparagus, Sparagus, or Sperage
- Prickly Asparagus, or Sperage
- Ash Tree
- Avens, Called Also Colewort, And Herb Bonet
- Balm
- Barberry
- Barley
- Garden Bazil, or Sweet Bazil
- The Bay Tree
- Beans
- French Beans
- Ladies Bed-Straw
- Beets
- Water Betony
- Wood Betony
- The Beech Tree
- Bilberries
- Bifoil or Twoblade
- The Birch Tree
- Bird's Foot
- Bishop's-Weed
- Bistort, or Snakeweed
- One-Blade
- The Bramble, or Blackberry Bush
- Blites
- Borage And Bugloss
- Blue-Bottle
- Brank Ursine
- Briony, or Wild Vine
- Brook Lime, or Water-Pimpernel
- Butcher's Broom
- Broom, And Broom-Rape
- Buck's-Horn Plantain
- Buck's Horn
- Bugle
- Burnet
- The Butter-Bur, or Petasitis
- The Burdock
- Cabbages And Coleworts
- The Sea Coleworts
- Calamint, or Mountain-Mint
- Camomile
- Water-Caltrops
- Campion, Wild
- Carduus Benedictus
- Carrots
- Carraway
- Celandine
- The Lesser Celandine or Pilewort or Fogwort
- The ordinary Small Centaury
- The Cherry-Tree
- Winter-Cherries
- Chervil
- Sweet Chervil, or Sweet Cicely
- Chesnut Tree
- Earth Chesnuts
- Chickweed
- Chick-Pease, or Cicers
- Cinquefoil
- Cives
- Clary, or More Properly Clear-Eye
- Wild Clary
- Cleavers
- Clown's Woods
- Cock's Head, Red Fitching, or Medick Fetch
- Columbines
- Coltsfoot
- Comfrey
- Coralwort
- Costmary, or Alcost, or Balsam Herb
- Cudweed, or Cottonweed
- Cowslips, or Peagles
- Crab's Claws
- Black Cresses
- Sciatica Cresses
- Water Cresses
- Crosswort
- Crowfoot
- Cuckow-Point
- Cucumbers
- Daisies
- Dandelion, Vulgarly Called Piss-A-Beds
- Darnel
- Dill
- Devil's-Bit
- Dock
- Dodder of Thyme, Epithymum, And Other Dodders
- Dog's-Grass, or Couch Grass
- Dove's-Foot, or Crane's-Bill
- Duck's Meat
- Down, or Cotton-Thistle
- Dragons
- The Elder Tree
- The Dwarf-Elder
- The Elm Tree
- Endive
- Elecampane
- Eringo, or Sea-Holly
- Eyebright
- Fern
- Osmond Royal, or Water Fern
- Feverfew or Featherfew
- Fennel
- Sow-Fennel, or Hog's-Fennel
- Fig-Wort, or Throat-Wort
- Filipendula, or Drop-Wort
- The Fig-Tree
- The Yellow Water-Flag, or Flower-De-Luce
- Flax-Weed, or Toad-Flax
- Flea-Wort
- Flux-Weed
- Flower-De-Luce
- Fluellin, or Lluellin
- Fox-Glove
- Fumitory
- The Furze Bush
- Garlick
- Gentian, Felwort, or Baldmony
- Clove Gilliflowers
- Germander
- Stinking Gladwin
- Golden Rod
- Gout-Wort, or Herb Gerrard
- Gromel
- Gooseberry Bush
- Winter-Green
- Groundsel
- Heart's-Ease
- Artichokes
- Hart's-Tongue
- Hazel-Nut
- Hawk-Weed
- Hawthorn
- Hemlock
- Hemp
- Henbane
- Hedge Hyssop
- Black Hellebore
- Herb Robert
- Herb True-Love, or One-Berry
- Hyssop
- Hops
- Horehound
- Horsetail
- Houseleek or Sengreen
- Hound's Tongue
- Holly, Holm, or Hulver Bush
- St. John's Wort
- Ivy
- Juniper Bush
- Kidneywort or Wall Pennyroyal or Wall Pennywort
- Knapweed
- Knotgrass
- Ladies' Mantle
- Lavender
- Lavender-Cotton
- Ladies-Smock, or Cuckow-Flower
- Lettuce
- Water Lily
- Lily of the Valley
- White Lilies
- Liquorice
- Liverwort
- Loosestrife or Willow-Herb
- Loosestrife, With Spiked Heads of Flowers
- Lovage
- Lungwort
- Madder
- Maiden Hair
- Wall Rue, or, White Maiden-Hair
- Golden Maiden Hair
- Mallows And Marshmallows
- Maple Tree
- Wind Marjoram
- Sweet Marjoram
- Marigolds
- Masterwort
- Sweet Maudlin
- The Medlar
- Mellilot, or King's Claver
- French And Dog Mercury
- Dog Mercury
- Mint
- Misselto
- Moneywort, or Herb Twopence
- Moonwort
- Mosses
- Motherwort
- Mouse-Ear
- Mugwort
- The Mulberry-Tree
- Mullein
- Mustard
- The Hedge-Mustard
- Nailwort, or Whitlow-Grass
- Nep, or Catmint
- Nettles
- Nightshade
- The Oak
- Oats
- One Blade
- Orchis
- Onions
- Orpine
- Parsley
- Parsley Piert, or Parsley Breakstone
- Parsnips
- Cow Parsnips
- The Peach Tree
- The Pear Tree
- Pellitory of Spain
- Pellitory of the Wall
- Pennyroyal
- Male And Female Peony
- Pepperwort, or Dittander
- Periwinkle
- St. Peter's Wort
- Pimpernel
- Ground Pine, or Chamepitys
- Plantain
- Plums
- Polypody of the Oak
- The Poplar Tree
- Poppy
- Purslain
- Primroses
- Privet
- Meadow Sweet or Mead Sweet
- The Quince Tree
- Raddish, or Horse-Raddish
- Ragwort
- Rattle Grass
- Rest Harrow, or Cammock
- Rocket
- Winter-Rocket, or Cresses
- Roses
- Rosa Solis, or Sun Dew
- Rosemary
- Rhubarb, or Rephontic
- Garden-Patience, or Monk's Rhubarb
- Great Round-Leaved Dock, or Bastard Rhubarb
- Meadow-Rue
- Garden-Rue
- Rupture-Wort
- Rushes
- Rye
- Saffron
- Sage
- Wood-Sage
- Solomon's Seal
- Samphire
- Sanicle
- Saracen's Confound, or Saracen's Woundwort
- Sauce-Alone, or Jack-By-The-Hedge-Side
- Winter And Summer Savoury
- Savine
- The Common White Saxifrage
- Burnet Saxifrage
- Scabious, Three Sorts
- Scurvygrass
- Self-Heal
- The Service-Tree
- Shepherd's Purse
- Smallage
- Sopewort, or Bruisewort
- Sorrel
- Wood Sorrel
- Sow Thistle
- Southern Wood
- Spignel, or Spikenard
- Spleenwort, Ceterach, or Heart's Tongue
- Star Thistle
- Strawberries
- Succory, or Chicory
- Stone-Crop, Prick-Madam, or Small-Houseleek
- English Tobacco
- The Tamarisk Tree
- Garden Tansy
- Wild Tansy, or Silver Weed
- Thistles
- The Melancholy Thistle
- Our Lady's Thistle
- The Woollen, or Cotton Thistle
- The Fuller's Thistle, or Teasle
- Treacle Mustard
- Mithridate Mustard
- The Black Thorn, or Sloe-Bush
- Thorough Wax, or Thorough Leaf
- Thyme
- Wild Thyme, or Mother of Thyme
- Tormentil, or Septfoil
- Turnsole, or Heliotropium
- Meadow Trefoil, or Honeysuckles
- Heart Trefoil
- Pearl Trefoil
- Tustan, or Park Leaves
- Garden Valerian
- Vervain
- The Vine
- Violets
- Viper's Bugloss
- Wall Flowers, or Winter Gilliflowers
- The Wallnut Tree
- Wold, Weld or Dyer's Weed
- Wheat
- The Willow Tree
- Woad
- Woodbine, or Honey-Suckles
- Wormwood
- Yarrow, Milfoil And Thousald-Leal
- Directions For Making Syrups, Conserves
- Of Leaves of Herbs, or Trees
- Of Flowers
- Of Seeds
- Of Roots
- Of Barks
- Of Juices
- Of Distilled Waters
- Of Syrups
- Of Juleps
- Of Decoctions
- Of Oils
- Of Electuaries
- Of Conserves
- Of Preserves
- Of Lohocks
- Of Ointments
- Of Plaisters
- Of Poultices
- Of Troches
- Of Pills
- Mixing Medicines According To Disease
- Human Virtues In the Body of Man
- Roots
- Barks
- Woods And their Chips, or Raspings
- Herbs And their Leaves
- Flowers
- Fruits And their Buds
- Seeds or Grains
- Tears, Liquors, And Rozins
- Juices
- Things Bred From Plants
- Living Creatures
- Parts of Living Creatures, And Excrements
- Belonging To the Sea
- Metals, Minerals, And Stones
- Roots
- Woods
- Herbs
- Flowers
- Fruits
- Seeds
- Metals, Stones, Salts, And Other Minerals
- Simple Distilled Waters
- Simple Waters Distilled
- Compounds, Spirit
- Tinctures
- Physical Wines
- Physical Vinegars
- Decoctions
- Syrups
- Purging Syrups
- Syrups Made With Vinegar And Honey
- Rob, or Sapa: And Juices
- Lohoch, or Eclegmata
- Preserved Roots, Stalks, Barks, Flowers, Fruits
- Conserves And Sugars
- Sugars
- Species, or Powders
- Electuaries
- Purging Electuaries
- Pills
- Troches
- Simple Oils By Expression
- Compound Oils By Infusion And Decoction
- Ointments More Simple
- Ointments More Compound
- Cerecloaths
- Plaisters
- The General Use of Physic of the Temperature of Medicines
- Of the Appropriation of Medicines
- Of the Propriety or Operation of Medicines
- Culpeper's Last Legacies
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