A heading of ours (added October 2026), not the 1850 index’s. It holds sentences the index would have filed under “Stomach”, read for direction: here Culpeper says the plant causes or harms, or the index heading did not fit.
Modern reading: stomach. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with stomach OR gastric OR gastroprotective OR "gastric ulcer" OR dyspepsia. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
The plant upsets the stomach: offends it, troubles it, brings a loathing, breeds bad humours. The same organ as the parent, with the verb turned round.
What the entries treat
Six warnings the verb pass (2026-10-26) moved out of “Stomach”. Briony root “purges the belly with great violence, troubling the stomach and burning the liver, and therefore not rashly to be taken”; Dog Mercury “a little offends the stomach”; garden Raddishes “breed but scurvy humours in the stomach, and corrupt the blood, and then send for a physician as fast as you can”; Southern Wood “is held by all writers, ancient and modern, to be more offensive to the stomach than worm-wood”; green Wheat, on Dioscorides’s word, “is hurtful to the stomach, and breeds worms”. Polypody’s is a warning half withdrawn (our reading): the loathing “it brings to the stomach, which is more than needs, it being a safe and gentle medicine, fit for all persons”.
stomach upset (said of the plant); nausea; gastric irritation — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
Culpeper’s warnings, in today’s words, are that the plant upsets the stomach, which medicine would call nausea or gastric irritation as a side effect; Briony’s violent purging is the strongest of them, and “not rashly to be taken” is his own caution. The Raddish and Wheat sentences run on into humours and worms, which are the old physiology. A heading of ours, from the verb pass: the index had these under the help heading, where a reader looking for a stomach remedy would have found the opposite. The word is under CND-0130.
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 “Stomach”, but in each sentence Culpeper says the plant harms it. They are listed so his words stay on record, not as a remedy.
6 claims: 6 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
Some use to put to it some Fennel seeds, or Annis seeds, or Ginger, to correct that loathing it brings to the stomach, which is more than needs, it being a safe and gentle medicine, fit for all persons, which daily experience confirms;
Garden Raddishes are in wantonness by the gentry eaten as a sallad, but they breed but scurvy humours in the stomach, and corrupt the blood, and then send for a physician as fast as you can;