Sicklewort


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Sic´kle`wort`


n.1.(Bot.) A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); - so named from its curved pods.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Otherwise known as: Carpetweed, Blue Bugle, Sicklewort
Plant of the Week: Plant linked to hallucinations now thought combatant of hair loss
His fellow herbalist and physician, Culpeper suggests 'Many times such as they that are given to the drinking and are troubled by strange fancies, strange sights in the darkness, and voices (DTs)… Those I have known have been cured by taking only two spoons of the syrup of Sicklewort after supper two hours, when to go to bed'.
Plant of the week: Plant used to treat war wounds now linked to alopecia
Otherwise known as: Carpetweed, Sicklewort, Blue Bugle
Plant of the Week: Plant very popular with Mediaeval physicians
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