A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Lungs”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.
Modern reading: lungs. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with lung OR pulmonary OR respiratory OR bronchitis. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Who should not eat lettuce, in Culpeper’s rules: the short-winded, and those with weak or bleeding lungs.
What the entries treat
One warning a keyword search had filed under Lungs and the verb pass (2026-10-26) moved here: Lettuce, whose use “is chiefly forbidden to those that are short-winded, or have any imperfection in the lungs, or spit blood”.
(none; search aids only) lungs; lettuce; cautions — no modern condition corresponds; the words are search aids only.
How it reads today
No modern condition, and no modern caution answers to it; it is Culpeper’s dietary rule for people with bad chests, reported here so his words stay on record. A heading of ours, from the verb pass, so a reader looking for help for the lungs does not find a prohibition; the word is under CND-0085.
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 “Lungs”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant harms it. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.
1 claim: 1 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone