According to modern botanists, black hellebore is not, as was for long supposed the #Helleboros melas# of Hippocrates.
Vomits of white hellebore or antimony, and purges of black hellebore or aloes, are prescribed.
Black hellebore, or the Christmas rose, "purgeth all melancholy humors, yet not without trouble and difficultie, therefore it is not to be given but to robustious and strong bodies as Mesues teacheth.
Matthiolus saith they are commonly used for black Hellebore, to the virtues of which I refer.
Black Hellebore, Bears-foot or Christmas flower: both this and the former are hot and dry in the third degree.
It would appear, moreover, that this is not the true "Black Hellebore" of the ancients (see remarks under H.
Schroff to answer best to the descriptions given by the ancients of black hellebore, the [Greek: helleboros melas] of Dioscorides.
Helleborus niger, black hellebore, or, as from blooming in mid-winter it is termed the Christmas rose (Ger.
According to an early tradition, black hellebore administered by the soothsayer and physician Melampus (whence its name Melampodium), was the means of curing the madness of the daughters of Proetus, king of Argos.
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