How To Use Henbane In A Sentence
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Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple.
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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.
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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.
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`We have ginger, ground elder, owl-hoof, hawthorn, hemlock, henbane, belladonna, valerian, foxglove.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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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
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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
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Eliza apparently found foxglove, henbane, and jimson weed growing in Serena's pleasant little garden.
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Frictions of the head and outward parts, sacculi of henbane, wormwood at his pillow, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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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.
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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
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So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Sahim had aroused Ajib, whom he had made insensible with henbane and had brought to his brother Gharib, the captive opened his eyes and, feeling himself bound and shackled, hung down his head earthwards.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Monkshood, horehound, henbane, vervain (good against the spells of witches), feverfew, dog's mercury, bistort, woad, and so on, all seem like relics of the days of black-letter books.
Nature Near London
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Its family is Solanaceae which has, like the Borgias, many toxic members, such as belladonna and black henbane, more suitable for a witches brew than a chef's.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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He also identified certain plants with pharmacological action such as mandragora or nightshade, opium and henbane and gave various recipes for inducing both anesthesia and analgesia before surgery.
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`We have ginger, ground elder, owl-hoof, hawthorn, hemlock, henbane, belladonna, valerian, foxglove.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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All that in a happier field and a purer air would expand into virtue and germinate into usefulness, is thus converted into henbane and deadly nightshade.
