The black hellebore was employed by the ancients to purify their dwellings, and they believed that its presence in their rooms drove away evil spirits.
It was also customary to bless the cattle with hellebore to keep them free from spells wrought by the wicked.
The ancient name for hellebore was melampus root, hence the name melampode, which doubtless arose from the old tradition.
Take of white Hellebore cut small, four ounces, Spanish Wine two pounds, steep it in the sun in a phial close stopped, in the dog days, or other hot weather.
In vain to hellebore you fly for aid: 120 Meet with preventive skill the young disease, And Craterus will boast no golden fees.
Whole urns of hellebore might hope in vain 255 To cool this high-wrought fever of the brain.
The poet," as Casaubon says, "has not reached the inspiring heights of Hippocrene, but muddled himself with the hellebore that grows on the way thither.
I also use hellebore (dry powdered form), especially valuable in destroying the worms when berries are almost ready for market, and on which it is dangerous to use arsenical poisons.
The formulae of the nine bodies which have been separated from hellebore root are as follows:-- Melting- point.
Of the green hellebore there is a tincture (tinctura veratri viridis), to make which four parts by weight of the root are exhausted by 20 parts by measure of spirits; the strength varies, but the average is 0.
Salzberger[527] isolated it from powdered hellebore roots by treating the powder with barium hydroxide and water, and extracting with ether.
There are several instances of poisoning by hellebore root,[583] and by the pharmaceutical preparations, but none of poisoning by the pure active principles.
Schauenstein mentions a case in which the roots of hellebore were accidentally used in soup, but the bitter taste prevented any quantity being eaten.
The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine.
In the New Forest the green hellebore is early and noticeable from its peculiar green blossoms, but I have not seen it in Worcestershire.
Mr. Culpeper was stooping over the pale hellebore blooms by the light of Una's lamp.
Dan had hung his lamp on the apple tree at the end of the hellebore bed in the walled garden, and was crouched by the gooseberry bushes ready to dash off when Una should spy him.
A little hellebore in powder, to make her sneeze, is in this case very proper.
Or take two ounces of boiled honey, half a scruple of spurge, four grains of coloquint, two grains of hellebore and drachm of salt; make a suppository.
The lower part of the steep was strewn with loose stones like shingle, that slipped under the feet, so that I had to proceed in zigzag fashion, taking advantage of every bush of juniper and box and root of hellebore as a foothold.
When prepared by coction with water till exhausted of soluble matter, black hellebore root yields about 40% of extract.
I would as life drink hellebore as anything, if I could but drink.
There is a draught you need, though; some neat hellebore is what you want; you are suffering from a converse hydrophobia; you are not afraid of water, but you are of thirst.
The root of asarum is perhaps the strongest of all the vegetable errhines, white hellebore itself not excepted.
But like most medicines, so the homeopaths have taught us, the plant that heals may also poison; and the coarse, thick rootstock of this hellebore sometimes does deadly work.
Borage and hellebore fill two scenes - Sovereign plants to purge the veins Of melancholy, and cheer the heart Of those black fumes which make it smart.
The helleboreuses its auger in the spring, when we find the stout, shining, solid tool above ground with the early skunk-cabbage.
Of all the helleborethat nature breeds, The largest share by far the miser needs: In fact, I know not but Anticyra's juice Was all intended for his single use.
Hellebore and pyrethrum are useful when it is not advisable to use arsenical poisons.
The root of Veratrum is also poisonous, and this plant is believed to be the Hellebore of the ancients.
Powdered hellebore will hinder their progress, but by far the most effective weapons are the finger and thumb--gloved, if you insist.
If this does not prove efficacious, dust the under side of the leaves with white helleborein a powder gun.
After the plants have begun to head use hellebore powder.
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