Bernardus Penottus prefers his herba solis, or Dutch sindaw, before all the rest in this disease, "and will admit of no herb upon the earth to be comparable to it.
It is supposed to be the famousHerba Britannica of the ancients.
This is thought to be the famous Herba Britannica of the ancients.
Former medical writers called the Cowslip herba paralysis, or, "palsywort," because of its supposed efficacy in relieving paralysis.
As a medicine, by reason of its astringency, it became called Polychresta herba veronica.
In botany it is more particularly known under the scientific appellation of Herba Nicotiana, so named on its introduction into France, in compliment to her ambassador, Jean Nicot of Nismes, from whom it was received.
HERBA SANTA I After long wars when comes release Not olive wands proclaiming peace Can import dearer share Than stems of Herba Santa hazed In autumn's Indian air.
Eastern chamber Rehearse the dream that brings the long release: Through jasmine sweet and talismanic amber Inhaling Herba Santa in the passive Pipe of Peace.
It was so commonly cultivated in Spain that the Italians have sometimes called itherba spagna.
They called it in Greek medicai, in Latin medica, or herba medica, because it had been brought from Media at the time of the Persian war, about 470 years before the Christian era.
Herba vulnera conferruminans;" good for joining the edges of a wound.
Egli è vn lago da i filosofi in Morauia detto spina notabile per lʼabbondanza ancora con non de i Cigni: nasce in esso vna certa herba il seme piccola della quale auidament è mangiato da quelli, onde la contentione.
So generally and so highly appreciated was this all-powerful plant, that Pliny tells us, Nulla herba Romanae nobilitatis plus habet quam hierabotane.
Amongst the various specifics recommended for the cure of plica, is the lycopodium, hence called herba plicaria; the vinca, or perventia.
Tradition tells us of a certain magical herb called Chora, which was also known as the Herba Meropis, or plant of the Merops, a bird which the Germans were familiar with under the name of Boemhechel or Baumhacker (Woodpecker).
By a blunder of the mediaeval herbalists, the name and remedial character of the Horse-tail, which was formerly called Herba sanguinaria and Nosebleed, were transferred without reason to the Yarrow, which has since retained them.
The Herba Clytiae is identified in an old German herbal (Hortus Medicus Camerarii) with Heliotropium Tricoccon.
Hence Pliny tells us that serpents fly from its leaves, because they also chill to the death: on this account probably it has been called Herba benedicta, or Herb Bennett.
At a time when a belief in witchcraft was rife in England, it was generally understood that the house where Herba Betonica was sown, was free from all mischief.
Prior remarks that "in point of fact the proper name of these plants was not Herba Benedicta, but Sti.
Pliny mentions the Vibro, which he calls Herba Britannica, as a plant which, if picked before the first thunderblast of a storm was heard, was deemed a safeguard against lightning.
It is called Herba Clavorum, because, according to tradition, it hinders the smith from hurting horses when he is shoeing them.
In old times, the plant was known as Herba Sanctae or Divae Mariae.
In later days, the herb was dedicated to the Virgin, under the name of Herba Sanctae Mariae.
The Low Dutch renders it Oncruidt, the German Oncraut, or Herba Mala, the French Turoye or Lolium, and the English Tares.
Botanists soberly classified it as herba panacea and herba sancta, and Gerard in his "Herbal" fixed its name finally as sana sancta Indorum, by which title it commonly appears in the professional recipes of the time.
In vain did loyal Frenchmen baptize the weed as the queen's own favorite, Herba Catherinae Medicae; it is easier to admit that Catherine de' Medici was not feminine than that tobacco is.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
