henbane

1 Black henbane has been found at archaeological sites in the Netherlands that date back to the Neolithic Period.

2 God created that just as He created henbane and nux vomica and copperas and belladonna and all other poisons, whether directly created by Himself or extracted by man.

3 All that in a happier field and purer air would expand into virtue and germinate into usefulness is converted into henbane and deadly nightshade.

4 The sealed container, full of nothing but henbane seeds, is solid proof people at the site were collecting, using, and probably cultivating the plant.

5 Excavations at the Celtic site have yielded a few seeds of henbane, a plant that also makes beer more intoxicating.

6 At the Houten-Castellum site, archaeologists found traces of black henbane, but only two of them appeared to be intentional, according to researchers.

7 The mandrake is just one of 2,500 species belonging to the Solanaceae family, which also contains tomatoes, potatoes, chillies, aubergines, peppers, tobacco, deadly nightshade and henbane - they are commonly called the Nightshades.

8 Besides tufts of wild mignonette, henbane reared its downy foliage and evil-smelling creamy blossom.

9 The smoking of the seeds and capsules of henbane is noted in books as a somewhat dangerous remedy adopted by country people for toothache.

10 I, and my whole family, my whole race, my whole city, may bite the dust in agony from a truss of henbane in the well; and little harm done forsooth!

11 But though through many long years the henbane showed no leaves in his soul; yet the sunken seed was there: and the first glimpse of Isabel's letter caused it to spring forth, as by magic.

12 Pills of henbane are likewise of service; and with them small quantities of the balsams may be combined, though the last should not be continued if they have any marked diuretic action.

13 A Babylonian clay tablet advises treating the pain of a burrowing 'tooth worm', which is thought to be the cause of caries, by plugging the hole with gum mastic and powdered henbane seeds.

14 “I gave her henbane, and she is asleep.”

15 Many a dead body in the village had smelled of oleander or henbane.

16 Asphalt from the street, leaves of henbane, datura, dried nightshade, and myrrh.

17 It is the henbane, a cruel and dangerous poison, but a powerful emollient, a soft sedative poultice, which melts, unbends, lulls to sleep the pain, often taking it quite away.

18 The same plants grow from both alike—spurge, cistus, rue, and henbane, constant to the desolation of abandoned dwellings.

19 To ancient physicians, black henbane was a source of both fascination and fear.

20 “Juice of henbane, black and deadly,” she said.

1 麻醉剂

drug narcotic dope dynamite anaesthetic intoxicant stupefacient

2 莨菪

belladonna

3 天仙子

hyoscyamus

4 茄科

potato tomato tobacco petunia aubergine capsicum tomatillo nightshade Tabasco mandrake datura nicotiana solanum schizanthus salpiglossis pepino physalis tamarillo boxthorn deadly nightshade currant tomato ground cherry potato vine Cape gooseberry angel's trumpet Chinese lantern