A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Inflammations”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.
Modern reading: inflammation. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with inflammation OR "anti-inflammatory". The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
The plant itself can set the skin itching and inflamed on a tender body; Culpeper says so and adds his own remedy for it.
What the entries treat
One warning the verb pass (2026-10-26) moved here: Celandine, “and if it chance that in a tender body it causes any itchings or inflammations, by bathing the place with a little vinegar it is helped”.
skin irritation from the plant; contact dermatitis (our reading) — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
In today’s words, Culpeper is reporting that Celandine can irritate the skin. A heading of ours, not the index’s: a keyword search had filed the sentence under Inflammations, where a reader looking for help against inflammation would have met its opposite. The word itself is under CND-0069.
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.
This heading is ours. A keyword search had filed these under “Inflammations”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant causes inflammation. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.
1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone