A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Melancholy”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.
Modern reading: depression and anxiety. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with depression OR antidepressant OR anxiety OR anxiolytic. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Two foods bad for the melancholy temperament: one by astrology, one because it thins the humour and sends fancies up to the head.
What the entries treat
Two warnings a keyword search had filed under Melancholy and the verb pass (2026-10-26) moved here: Barley, whose bread, by the sympathies and antipathies, “is so unwholesome for melancholy people”; Garlick, which “in men oppressed by melancholy, it will attenuate the humour, and send up strong fancies, and as many strange visions to the head”.
(none; search aids only) melancholy; depression; barley; garlic; cautions — no modern condition corresponds; the words are search aids only.
How it reads today
No modern condition. Both are Culpeper’s temperament rules for who should not eat a food, reported so his words stay on record. A heading of ours, from the verb pass, so a reader looking for help with melancholy does not find a prohibition; the word is under CND-0091.
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 “Melancholy”, 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
if you view diligently its effects by sympathy and antipathy, you may easily perceive a reason of them, as also why barley bread is so unwholesome for melancholy people.