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Henbane

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Henbane as a plant people have named and used. Heavy sleep, pale flower, old caution — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Henbane is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists henbane (hyoskyamos) among narcotic plant drugs with careful dose speech. A named henbane in that handbook, not belladonna as an unresolved later Atropa identity and not a witches’-flying dump.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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  • Henbane is used in Nettle.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, nettle seed is named among the substitutes drank in wine to help those that have taken henbane — nettle seed stands as a tempering counter when goat’s milk or honeyed water is wanting.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Henbane is used in Garlic.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, garlic taken in wine is named to free those that have taken henbane and restore them to due temper — garlic wine is the sharp counter-drink to henbane.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Henbane is historically related to Honey.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, phylomum persicum takes seeds of white henbane with honey of roses into an electuary — henbane is compounded with that honey.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Henbane is historically related to Milk.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, the remedy for those who have taken henbane is to drink goat’s milk, honeyed water, or pine kernels with sweet wine, to free them from danger and restore their temper.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Henbane is historically related to Flour.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, flour of wheat mixed with the juice of henbane stays the flux of humours to the joints when laid thereon.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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