Burns

CND-0023Wounds, bruises and sores

Open in the Concordance

Historical label: “Burns” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.

Modern reading: burns. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with burns OR "burn wound" OR "wound healing". The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.

A note on the heading

Plain sense
An injury from fire or hot liquid (a scald), and sunburn.
What the entries treat
Three claims. Burdock leaves with egg white “applied to any place burnt with fire, takes out the fire”; Hound’s Tongue “for any place that is scalded or burnt”; Pellitory of the Wall’s water for “sun-burn” among the skin’s spots. Many more sentences that also name “burnings” and “scaldings” sit under Anthony’s Fire and Agues, filed there for their own words.
Today’s words
burns; scalds; sunburn — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did.

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: 3 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Hound’s Tongue Cynoglossum officinaleCLM-0022791850 index, pp. 98, 359
    as also for any place that is scalded or burnt;
    QUO-001411Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Pellitory Of The Wall Parietaria officinalisCLM-000387
    The distilled water of the herb drank with some sugar, works the same effects, and cleanses the skin from spots, freckles, purples, wheals, sun-burn, morphew, &c.
    QUO-000325Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. The Burdock Arctium lappaCLM-0022781850 index, p. 36
    The leaves bruised with the white of an egg, and applied to any place burnt with fire, takes out the fire, gives sudden ease, and heals it up afterwards.
    QUO-001410Papers 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

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