A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Sleep, (to procure)”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.
Modern reading: sleep. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with sleep OR insomnia OR sedative OR hypnotic. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
As the parent: sleep, here spoiled rather than brought on. “Troublesome sleep” is sleep broken or disturbed, by the “very hurtful vapours” the sentence sends up to the brain, in the old physiology.
What the entries treat
One claim, moved here by the verb pass (2026-10-26) from “Sleep, (to procure)”: Cives eaten raw “send up very hurtful vapours to the brain, causing troublesome sleep, and spoiling the eye-sight”. The same sentence sits under Brain (Culpeper says it harms), CND-0020, for its other half.
disturbed sleep (said of chives); broken sleep — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Culpeper’s warning, in today’s words, is that chives not prepared by the alchemist disturb sleep; his “raw” means not chemically prepared, not uncooked (“raw, opposite to chymical preparation”). The “vapours to the brain” that carry the harm are the old physiology and have no modern counterpart. A heading of ours, not the index’s: the verb pass moved his warning off the help heading it was filed under, so a reader looking for sleep would not find its opposite. The word itself is under CND-0121.
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 “Sleep (to procure)”, 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
If they be eaten raw, (I do not mean raw, opposite to roasted or boiled, but raw, opposite to chymical preparation) they send up very hurtful vapours to the brain, causing troublesome sleep, and spoiling the eye-sight, yet of them prepared by the art of the alchymist, may be made an excellent remedy for the stoppage of the urine.