Hellebore
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hellebore · black hellebore · hellebores · the hellebore
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Aphorisms
A purgative plant substance used to induce vomiting or evacuation, requiring careful management of the patient's activity.
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.
Persons who are not easily purged upward by the hellebores, should have their bodies moistened by plenty of food and rest before taking the draught.
De diaeta acutorum
A purgative plant substance used for upward purging, with explicit rules on appropriate and inappropriate use.
it is mixed also with the hellebores, and the third part of the dose chokes less.
As for those who have the lower bellies hot, and acrid and irregular stools pass through them from a melting-down, if they be strong, draw it the other way with hellebore;
having boiled up black hellebore, give it to a pleuritic patient in severe pain at the beginning;
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.