Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— in the Stomach” under “Wind” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Wind — in the Stomach”.
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
Wind felt in the stomach, the belching and bloated kind, as against wind in the bowels. Culpeper’s sentences do not keep the two apart; the index’s sub-line is finer than his text.
What the entries treat
5 claims: 5 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone. Rosemary “is a remedy for the windiness in the stomach, bowels, and spleen, and expels it powerfully”; Garden Tansy “to dissolve and expel wind in the stomach, belly, or bowels”, and, bruised and smelled to, for “windiness in the matrix”; the Wild or Horse Mint “to dissolve wind in the stomach, to help the cholic, and those that are short-winded”; Thyme “comforts the stomach much, and expels wind”; Lovage “eases all inward gripings and pains, dissolves wind”.
Today’s words
bloating; belching (eructation); indigestion (dyspepsia); gas — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
The same complaint, under a sub-line the sentences do not quite honour: two of the five name the bowels or spleen too (Rosemary, Garden Tansy), Mint adds the cholic and Lovage the gripings, so the mapping is broad, wider than the stomach alone. Medicine would call the stomach half bloating and belching, or dyspepsia when there is pain with it. “The matrix” in Tansy’s sentence is the womb, the Latin word the old English borrowed and dropped, the same idea as “the mother” under Wind.
References
see CND-0153; for “matrix”, see CND-0155
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.
5 claims: 5 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone
Garden TansyTanacetum vulgareCLM-0024581850 index, p. 178
It is also very profitable to dissolve and expel wind in the stomach, belly, or bowels, to procure women’s courses, and expel windiness in the matrix, if it be bruised and often smelled unto, as also applied to the lower part of the belly.
The virtues of the Wild or Horse Mint, such as grow in ditches (whose description I purposely omitted, in regard they are well known) are serviceable to dissolve wind in the stomach, to help the cholic, and those that are short-winded, and are an especial remedy for those that have veneral dreams and pollutions in the night, being outwardly applied.