How To Use Horehound In A Sentence
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Each of the Horehounds is a labiate plant; and this, the water variety, bears flesh coloured flowers, whilst containing a volatile oil, a resin, a bitter principle, and tannin.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Marsh fern, water horehound, spotted touch-me-not, great water dock, and lake sedge live on the soupy mudflats.
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I gathered mint and mustard and nettles, and went down to my herb garden on the terrace below the house to pick horehound and hyssop.
Wildfire
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Black horehound is noticeable along the lanes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Marsh fern, water horehound, spotted touch-me-not, great water dock, and lake sedge live on the soupy mudflats.
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Each morning, Mr. Willetts cycles from his home nearby, stopping off along the way to pick vegetation such as honeysuckle, borage, sweet violets, horehound and meadowsweet, which will end up on one of the dishes at the restaurant later that day.
Sniffing Out Local Gems
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Ancient Egyptians, Ayurvedic practitioners and Native American healers used horehound, another highly regarded herbal expectorant, as a cough remedy.
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Instead, she gets a pomegranate tree, a sack of hoodooed horehound candies, and a strange visitor—a boy who offers her a silver coin from his mouth and asks for directions to Elisia.
12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006
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In his mouth there was the sweet burn of horehound candy, the exact savor of his long-ago childhood.
Excerpt: The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
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Maybe I smelled the musk of horehound and the bracing scent of mint in my sleep, for in the morning I awoke to find those herbs in the straw around our blankets, mixed with poppies and cornflower and other weeds that had grown unwelcomed amidst wheat and barley.
Wildfire
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One of my favorites is horehound, a robust plant that is nearly indestructible and produces clusters of small white flowers that draw tiny flies like magnets.
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She needed horehound and pennyroyal and thyme for young Jane Butcher who was near her time.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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Remember in the Little House books how excited Laura and Mary would get over an orange and a piece of horehound candy?
Ferule & Fescue
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Eventually, Old World plants were incorporated into these heady infusions, some of which included gentian root, colombo root, cinchona bark, ground ivy, horehound, cassia, wormwood, and angostura bark and root.
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Horehound plants in the fall and winter have hard, prickly-feeling knots on the stems were the flowers bloomed.
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Horehound, horsemint, and the sensitive fern grew close to the edge, under the willows and alders, and wool-grass on the islands, as along the Assabet River in Concord.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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I made a tisane of horehound and hyssop the next night, when I heard the woman coughing, and in this way I took up my duties as a greenwoman again.
Wildfire
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The scientific name for horehound is Marrubium vulgare, and like all such binomials, tells you something about the plant when the name is translated.’
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She recommends the use of psyllium for constipation, aloe for jaundice and horehound for cough.
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Cadfael went back to his workshop in the herbarium, and blew up his brazier to boil a fresh elixir of horehound for the winter coughs and colds.
A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
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Other herbs that might be used in tea or syrup to treat cough include horehound, sage and thyme.
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The last part of the name is supposed to come from a time when horehound was considered to be effective protection from the bite of a rabid dog.
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Having tasted a decoction of horehound prepared by an herbalist friend, I find myself wondering if the Navajo name actually doesn't describe the look and color of the face of the herbalist's patient!
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This is the classic version; clinically Michael has developed his own preferred version, which adds a number of Western herbs, including elecampane, echinacea, boneset, isatis, and horehound.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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The old standby is hard candy made with horehound, but these herbal drops can be hard to find these days.
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The herb garden shows off plants used in cooking, including several varieties of oregano, sage, and thyme to garlics and horehounds.
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Overtly medicinal ingredients, such as horehound, wintergreen, and liquorice, turned the confections into cough drops.
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Sea of Cowards," the band's sludgier, yowlier follow-up, showcases the interplay between White and Mosshart to a greater advantage than "Horehound" did.
Album review: The Dead Weather, "Sea of Cowards"
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Linden, lobelia, coltsfoot, red clover, licorice, horehound, and wild cherry bark help to quiet a spasmodic cough but do not use these herbs to treat a productive cough that helps to clear the system.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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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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The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes
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The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes
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And according to Columella, the Horehound is a serviceable remedy against the Cankerworm in trees: _Profuit et plantis latices infundere amaros marrubii_.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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White horehound flowers end up garnishing a dish of razor clams.
Sniffing Out Local Gems
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What fine old names they have, great with the blended dignities of literary and rural lore; archangel, tormentil, rosa solis or sun-dew, horehound, Saracen's wound-wort, melilot or king's clover, pellitory of Spain!
Apologia Diffidentis
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The invasion of weeds such as horehound and stemless thistles is a continuing management problem.
