Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (to strengthen)” under “Stomach” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Stomach — (to strengthen)”.
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 strengthen a weak stomach: in the humoral scheme, to restore its “retentive faculty” (Yarrow’s phrase under Stomach) and its appetite, so that it holds and digests its meat. The sentences name a weak stomach, a lost appetite and vomiting.
What the entries treat
Four claims, all with a sentence, all also under Stomach. Gentian “strengthens the stomach exceedingly, helps digestion, comforts the heart”; Mustard is “an excellent sauce for such whose blood wants clarifying, and for weak stomachs, being an herb of Mars, but naught for choleric people”; Wood Sorrel “to strengthen a weak stomach, to procure an appetite, to stay vomiting”; Roses for “St. Anthony’s fire, and other diseases of the stomach”.
(none; search aids only) weak stomach; indigestion; digestive tonic; bitters; loss of appetite — no modern condition corresponds; the words are search aids only.
How it reads today
No modern condition is “a weak stomach” and no treatment class answers to strengthening one; the nearest living idea is the digestive tonic taken before a meal. The sentences’ own complaints, lost appetite and vomiting, have their headings. 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.
4 claims: 4 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
It is an excellent sauce for such whose blood wants clarifying, and for weak stomachs, being an herb of Mars, but naught for choleric people, though as good for such as are aged, or troubled with cold diseases.
Wood SorrelOxalis acetosellaCLM-0024321850 index, pp. 172, 280, 374
Wood Sorrel serves to all the purposes that the other Sorrels do, and is more effectual in hindering putrefaction of blood, and ulcers in the mouth and body, and to quench thirst, to strengthen a weak stomach, to procure an appetite, to stay vomiting, and very excellent in any contagious sickness or pestilential fevers.