Crossword-Solution: BIRTHWORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Birthwort | n. | A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. |
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| type of climbing plant once believed to ease childbirth | 1 answer |
| EUROPEAN herb/herbaceous plant | 38 answers |
| European plant | 51 answers |
| Climbing Plant | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AECMZE
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eruption
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Sentences with BIRTHWORT (5)
And, as in divers plants and trees there are two sexes, male and female, which is perceptible in laurels, palms, cypresses, oaks, holms, the daffodil, mandrake, fern, the agaric, mushroom, birthwort, turpentine, pennyroyal, peony, rose of the mount, and many other such like, even so in this herb there is a male which beareth no flower at all, yet it is very copious of and abundant in seed.
The Prickly Pear roasted in Ashes is applied to Bruises, Swellings, and Inflammations; and a dram or two of the Round Birthwort is esteemed the best remedy in the world for the Choler.
Other Common Names: Trillium, red trillium, purple trillium, ill-scented trillium, birthroot, birthwort, bathwort, bathflower, red wake-robin, purple wake-robin, ill-scented wake-robin, red-benjamin, bumblebee-root, daffydown-dilly, dishcloth, Indian balm, Indian shamrock, nosebleed, squawflower, squawroot, wood-lily, true-love, orange-blossom.
Take equal Parts of round Birthwort Roots, of Elecampane, of Myrrh, and of Rob or Conserve of Juniper-berries, and make them into an Electuary of a rather thin, than very stiff Consistence, with Syrup of Orange-peel.
What an attenuant diet consists of is perfectly obvious; but the more powerful medicines, such as the seed of rue, particularly the wild, with its tops, the round birthwort (_aristolochia rotunda_), the small centaury, gentian, poley, and the stronger diuretic medicines, as Macedonian parsley: all such medicines, either alone, or together, attenuate the humours, and evacuate the body.