Hellebore
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Aphorisms
A purgative plant substance used to induce vomiting or evacuation, requiring careful management of the patient's activity.
A spasm from taking hellebore is of a fatal nature.
Hellebore is dangerous to persons whose flesh is sound, for it induces convulsion.
When you wish the hellebore to act more, move the body, and when to stop, let the patient get sleep and rest.
De diaeta acutorum
A purgative plant substance used for upward purging, with explicit rules on appropriate and inappropriate use.
One must give hellebore to those from whose head a flux is borne;
But if it seem good to purge, purge upward safely with hellebore;
it is mixed also with the hellebores, and the third part of the dose chokes less.
De Rerum Natura
A plant, poisonous to humans but nourishing to goats and quails, illustrating species-relative toxicity.
Again, fierce poison is the hellebore
To us, but puts the fat on goats and quails.
De Anima
A purgative herb used as a remedy, associated with an anecdote about Chrysippus.
So Chrysippus turned to hellebore.