A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Liver”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.
Modern reading: liver. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with liver OR hepatoprotective OR hepatic OR hepatotoxicity. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Two plants said to hurt the liver: one by its violence as a purge, one by its planet.
What the entries treat
Two warnings a keyword search had filed under Liver and the verb pass (2026-10-26) moved here: Briony’s root “purges the belly with great violence, troubling the stomach and burning the liver, and therefore not rashly to be taken”; Broom and Broom-rape, which Mars owns, are “exceeding prejudicial to the liver, I suppose by reason of the antipathy between Jupiter and Mars”.
(none; search aids only) liver; bryony; broom; cautions — no modern condition corresponds; the words are search aids only.
How it reads today
No modern condition. The Briony sentence is a caution about a violent purge, in Culpeper’s own voice (“not rashly to be taken”); the Broom one is astrology, Mars against Jupiter, the liver’s planet. A heading of ours, from the verb pass, so that a reader looking for help for the liver does not find its opposite; the word is under CND-0079.
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 “Liver”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant harms it. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.
2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
As for the Broom and Broom-rape, Mars owns them, and is exceeding prejudicial to the liver, I suppose by reason of the antipathy between Jupiter and Mars;