Historical label: “Indigestion” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.
Modern reading: indigestion. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with dyspepsia OR indigestion OR digestive. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Food not digested. Avens’ sentence names it and “a cold stomach” as two things: “helps indigestion, and warms a cold stomach”.
What the entries treat
Three claims: one sentence and two index names. Avens “helps indigestion, and warms a cold stomach, and opens obstructions of the liver and spleen”. Ragwort (p. 149) and Samphire (pp. 164, 319, 374) are listed in the index with no sentence naming it.
Where the word comes from
Middle English indigestioun, from Old French, from Late Latin indigestio: in- + digestion.
Today’s words
indigestion; dyspepsia (medicine’s word) — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did: the everyday word for an upset stomach after food, which medicine calls dyspepsia and sorts by cause. The “cold stomach” is the four qualities, with no counterpart.
References
Wiktionary, s.v. “indigestion” (accessed 2026-10-28): “From Middle English indigestioun, from Old French indigestion, from Late Latin indigestio, by surface analysis, in- + digestion”; sense “(pathology) a condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly”.
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: 1 with a sentence, 2 from the index alone