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4 unusual facts about Veratrum album


Cryptenamine

Cryptenamine (Unitensen) is a mixture of hypotensive alkaloids extracted from Veratrum album.

Papa Smurf

The French comic portrays Papa Smurf constantly preparing magical drinks from white hellebore.

V. album

Veratrum album, the false helleborine, a medicinal plant species native to Europe

Veratrum album

In antiquity, an effective emetic based on white hellebore and a bitter oval seed (which Hahneman believed was the seed of Erigeron or Senecio) was mixed by the physicians of Antikyra, a city of Phokis in Greece.



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