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The remembrance of these astounding folk discoveries... should sober our thoughts when we criticise too freely the old pharmacopoeias. It is easy to make fun of medieval recipes: it is more difficult and may be wiser to investigate them. Instead of assuming that the medieval pharmacist was a benighted foot we might wonder whether there was not sometimes a justification for his strange procedure. -- George Sartori, Harvard Professor and Author

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Plant H Glossary

Herbs

Hallucinogen

- any drug which causes hallucinations. Mescaline, a drug made from the cactus me scat or peyote, is an example.

Hemorrhage

- a copious loss of blood which can quickly cause loss of life. Some Indian tribes are said to have utilized the dried spores of the puffball fungus as a hemostat, the fineness of the dust causing the blood to coagulate quickly. A bandage utilizing wrung-out sphagnum moss will absorb a lot of blood and apparently has some “built-in” germicidal effect.

Hepatics

- substances which affect the liver harmfully or correctively.

Hydragogue

- a cathartic that causes a watery discharge from the bowels.

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