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mandrake root

NOUN
  1. the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic

How To Use mandrake root In A Sentence

  • For venereal warts, medical doctors use extract of podophyllum, which is from the mandrake root. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
  • Assistants held the patient securely and some sedation such as mandrake root or solution of opium was given, a concoction which probably stiffened the surgeon's resolve rather than mollified the patient.
  • They are easily frightened, and can only be lured out of their nesting grounds with offerings of mandrake root.
  • Millie picked up a piece of mandrake root and broke it.
  • Stronger liver-purging herbs include cascara sagrada, chebulic myrobalan called haritaki, one of the three substances in triphala, culver's root, and American mandrake root. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
  • Millie picked up a piece of mandrake root and broke it.
  • Last summer at The Yard, an arts colony devoted entirely to dance, he spent a month making Mandragora Vulgaris, a work based on the medieval legend of the mandrake root.
  • Some preparations are adulterated with phenylbutazone, ephedrine, aminopyrine or mandrake root.
  • His experiences of living in Rome produced Limitatio, a painting that includes variations on the already fantastic shapes of mandrake roots, based on an illustration in a medieval manuscript at the Vatican Library.
  • Colin, staring at a jar of mandrake roots, turns to her, smiling.
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