Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (bleeding at)” under “Nose” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Nose — (bleeding at)”.
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
A nosebleed, and stopping it. Periwinkle’s “great binder” is the astringent idea: a plant thought to bind.
What the entries treat
Three claims. Fluellin “stays all manner of bleeding at the nose, mouth, or any other place, or that comes by any bruise or hurt, or bursting a vein”; Houseleek, the leaves “bruised and laid upon the crown or seam of the head, stays bleeding at the nose very quickly”; Periwinkle “is a great binder, stays bleeding both at mouth and nose, if some of the leaves be chewed”.
Today’s words
nosebleed; epistaxis (medicine’s word) — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did; medicine’s word is epistaxis, Greek for a nosebleed. Houseleek’s remedy is laid on “the crown or seam of the head”, not the nose, and the text gives no reason. The wider bleeding sentences, the nose among them, are under Bleeding (to stay), CND-0013.
References
Wiktionary, s.v. “epistaxis” (accessed 2026-10-28): from Ancient Greek ἐπίσταξις “nosebleed”, ἐπί “upon” and στάζω “to drip (from the nostrils)”; “(medicine) nosebleed”.
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.
3 claims: 3 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
The leaves bruised and applied with barley meal to watering eyes that are hot and inflamed by defluxions from the head, do very much help them, as also the fluxes of blood or humours, as the lask, bloody flux, women’s courses, and stays all manner of bleeding at the nose, mouth, or any other place, or that comes by any bruise or hurt, or bursting a vein;