Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (to stop)” under “Menses, (to provoke)” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Menses (to stop)”.
Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
To stop or lessen periods that run too long or too heavy (our reading; no sentence is under this heading): the index’s word for what the entries call staying women’s courses or their too much abounding.
What the entries treat
1 claim: 0 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone. Garden Tansy (index p. 179) has an entry, but no sentence in it names the menses. The index prints this as a sub-line of “Menses, (to provoke)”: the opposite aim under the one word.
heavy periods (menorrhagia); prolonged bleeding — uncertain: the text does not let us tell.
How it reads today
Heavy or long periods are menorrhagia. The index gave this heading one name and no sentence; the sentences for staying the courses are the binding plants’, and sit under Bleeding (to stay).
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.
1 claim: 0 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone
Garden TansyTanacetum vulgareCLM-0023721850 index, p. 179
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.