Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— Dry” under “Agues” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Agues — Dry”.
Modern reading: malaria and intermittent fever. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with malaria OR antimalarial OR antiplasmodial OR "intermittent fever" OR antipyretic. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Culpeper never says what a dry ague is, and the three sentences do not describe one. Reading it as an ague of the dry quality, in the old sorting of fevers by hot, cold, moist and dry, is a reading of ours, not his words.
What the entries treat
Three index names. Costmary “is a wonderful help to all sorts of dry agues”; Lovage’s sentence says “any sort of ague”; Sweet Maudlin has no sentence naming it.
ThinkDeep333, 2026-10-28 · draft, not yet checked. Offered beside Culpeper’s heading, never in its place; nothing here says whether a plant works.
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.
3 claims: 2 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone
LovageLevisticum officinaleCLM-0022641850 index, p. 108
It is a known and much praised remedy to drink the decoction of the herb for any sort of ague, and to help the pains and torments of the body and bowels coming of cold.