Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— in the Stomach” under “Pain in the Bowels” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Pain in the Stomach”.
Modern reading: gut pain. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with "abdominal pain" OR gastritis OR analgesic OR "stomach pain". The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Pain in the stomach, often with wind: “windiness”, “gnawings”, “griping pains”. Three of the four sentences name the stomach with the sides, belly or bowels in one breath.
What the entries treat
Four claims. Rosemary “is a remedy for the windiness in the stomach, bowels, and spleen, and expels it powerfully”; Rupture-wort “helps stitches in the sides, griping pains of the stomach or belly, the obstructions of the liver, and cures the yellow jaundice”; Spignel’s roots in wine or water help “the wind, swellings and pains in the stomach, pains of the mother, and all joint-aches”; the Black Thorn’s flower water “to ease all manner of gnawings in the stomach, the sides and bowels, or any griping pains in any of them, to drink a small quantity when the extremity of pain is upon them”.
Today’s words
stomach pain; indigestion (dyspepsia); trapped wind; gastric pain — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
Reads as it did, with one caution: three of the four sentences run stomach, sides and bowels together, so the heading covers more than the organ (our reading), which is why it is marked broad. “Pains of the mother” in Spignel’s sentence are the womb’s: “mother” for the uterus is an obsolete sense, and Wiktionary’s quotation for it is Culpeper himself, “helps the rising of the Mother” (1666). The womb is under CND-0156.
References
Wiktionary, s.v. “mother” (accessed 2026-10-28): Etymology 1 noun sense “(obsolete) hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus”, quotations Shakespeare, King Lear, c. 1603–1606, “O how this mother swels up toward my hart”, and Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian Enlarged (1666), p. 49, “helps the rising of the Mother”; Forbes 1979, “‘mother’, an old name for the uterus”.
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.
4 claims: 4 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
The roots boiled in wine or water, and drank, helps the stranguary and stoppings of the urine, the wind, swellings and pains in the stomach, pains of the mother, and all joint-aches.
But the distilled water of the flower first steeped in sack for a night, and drawn therefrom by the heat of Balneum and Anglico, a bath, is a most certain remedy, tried and approved, to ease all manner of gnawings in the stomach, the sides and bowels, or any griping pains in any of them, to drink a small quantity when the extremity of pain is upon them.