Historical label: “Face” 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
The face as skin to be cleared: spots and wrinkles. A cosmetic entry, not a disease.
What the entries treat
One claim, with a sentence: Beans, “plants of Venus”, whose flower-water “is good to clean the face and skin from spots and wrinkles, and the meal or flour of them, or the small beans doth the same”.
Today’s words
(none; search aids only) complexion; skin care; blemishes; wrinkles; cosmetic — no modern condition corresponds; the words are search aids only.
How it reads today
No condition. This is a beauty wash, the kind of thing the book’s “Skin (to clear)” heading holds, filed under the face by the index. Spots and wrinkles are what they were; the Venus is Culpeper’s astrology, kept apart on the page.
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.
1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
They are plants of Venus, and the distilled water of the flower of garden beans is good to clean the face and skin from spots and wrinkles, and the meal or flour of them, or the small beans doth the same.