henbane

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• Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple.
• He also identified certain plants with pharmacological action such as mandragora or nightshade, opium and henbane and gives various recipes for inducing both anesthesia and analgesia before surgery.
• If you need to produce severe drunkenness in order that you may carry out painful treatment on an organ, dissolve in the drink half a dram of each of darnel, fumitory, opium and henbane and half a carat of myrobalan.
• `We have ginger, ground elder, owl-hoof, hawthorn, hemlock, henbane, belladonna, valerian, foxglove. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• The chemical constituents of Henbane are "hyoscyamine," a volatile alkaloid, with a bitter principle, "hyoscypricin" (especially just before flowering), also nitrate of potash, which causes the leaves, when burnt, to sparkle with a deflagration, and other inorganic salts. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• As soon as the water begins to boil the would-be lycanthropist must throw into it handfuls of any three of the following substances: Asafoetida, parsley, opium, hemlock, henbane, saffron, aloe, poppy-seed and solanum; repeating as he does so these words: -- Werwolves
• Eliza apparently found foxglove, henbane, and jimson weed growing in Serena's pleasant little garden.
• Frictions of the head and outward parts, sacculi of henbane, wormwood at his pillow, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Take two drams of each of henbane seeds, opium, gum-benzoin and galabum, one dram of pepper and one dram of fennel and apply onto the painful tooth.
• There are various recipes for dwale from the Middle Ages, and I think they generally feature hemlock, henbane, opium and various other ingredients. Early medieval surgical knowledge