vulnerary

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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.

From Time Magazine Archive

They used it first, as Pownall the local historian tells you, "as a vulnerary and abstersive," and healed wounds with it; then some labourers accidentally drank it, and Epsom's fortune was made.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

For these purposes as a vulnerary, the Calendula owes its introduction and first use altogether to homoeopathic methods, as signally valuable for healing wounds, ulcers, burns, and other breaches of the skin surface.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

By virtue of its properties as a vulnerary it has also been called Consolida; but the daisy is the true Consolida minor.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

In China it was an old internal remedy for leprosy and struma, and is accredited with stimulant, tonic, sedative, astringent and vulnerary properties.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various