Historical label: “Heart-Burn” 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
A burning felt in the chest, near the heart, from the stomach. The index gives the word; the book gives no sentence for it.
What the entries treat
One index name and no sentence: The Vine (p. 246), listed in the index with no sentence naming it.
Where the word comes from
Middle English hertbryne, herte-bren, heart + burn, “from being a burning sensation near the location of the heart in the chest”; the Greek kardialgia, “heart-pain”, which Wiktionary sets beside it, is the same picture.
Today’s words
heartburn; acid reflux; gastro-oesophageal reflux (GERD or GORD) — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
The same word and the same thing, and a false friend from the start: it has nothing to do with the heart. Heartburn today is the burning pain of stomach acid entering the gullet.
References
Wiktionary, s.v. “heartburn” (accessed 2026-10-28): “From Middle English hertbryne, herte-bren … equivalent to heart + burn”; “Compare also Ancient Greek καρδιαλγία (kardialgía), from καρδία (kardía, ‘heart’) + ἄλγος (álgos, ‘pain’)”; “From being a burning sensation near the location of the heart in the chest”; sense “(pathology) a burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet”.
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: 0 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone
The VineVitis viniferaCLM-0023371850 index, p. 246
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.