Historical label: “Aches in the joints” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.
Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Pain in the joints, from any cause.
What the entries treat
One index name, Beans, with no sentence naming it (the index points to pages 228 and 274). Culpeper’s own phrases elsewhere are “pains in the joints” and “joint-aches”.
Today’s words
joint pain; arthralgia; arthritis (when the joint is inflamed); rheumatism (the older catch-all) — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did. Medicine now sorts joint pain by its cause (wear, inflammation, gout, injury); the heading does not, so no one cause can be read into it.
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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.
1 claim: 0 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone