Printed in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases” as “—— (diseases of)” under “Womb, (cold infirmities of)” (the dash stands for the heading above it, or its first word); shown here as “Womb (diseases of)”.
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
Diseases of the womb at large. The one sentence is about the womb after a birth, “such infirmities as a careless midwife hath there caused”, and about strengthening it.
What the entries treat
2 claims: 1 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone. Feverfew, in Culpeper’s astrological voice: Venus “has commended it to succour her sisters (women) and to be a general strengthener of their wombs, and remedy such infirmities as a careless midwife hath there caused”, the herb “boiled in white wine”. Wild Arrach is listed in the index (page 10) under a name the book has no herbal entry for.
uterine disease; gynaecological conditions; postpartum complications (for the midwife sentence, our reading) — a broad match: the heading covers more than this, or several modern things.
How it reads today
Too wide for one modern name: “diseases of the womb” is a department, not a diagnosis, and the one sentence narrows it to harm done in childbirth, which medicine files under postpartum complications (our reading). Culpeper’s reason is astrological, Venus looking after women, and sits apart from the sentence’s claim. The word is under 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.
2 claims: 1 with a sentence, 1 from the index alone
Venus commands this herb, and has commended it to succour her sisters (women) and to be a general strengthener of their wombs, and remedy such infirmities as a careless midwife hath there caused if they will but be pleased to make use of her herb boiled in white wine, and drink the decoction;