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  1. NLM Digital Collections - The natural history of Pliny (Volume 5) 
    Publication: London : Henry G. Bohn, MDCCCLV-MDCCCLVII
    ... CENTAURION. 103 hanging from the extremities, and a black seed. In other respects, it bears a resemblance to ... for all female diseases in common, is the black seed of the herbaceous plant paeonia,67 taken in ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - The natural history of Pliny (Volume 4) 
    Publication: London : Henry G. Bohn, MDCCCLV-MDCCCLVII
    ... from the ancient Egyptian. ?t " Black flower." 35 " Black seed." 36 It is no longer used in medicine, ... It is used nigra of Linnaeus, mustard with black seed; and that with the leaf of the rocket ...
  3. ... of supplements with this effect include 5-HTP, black seed, SAMe, and St. John's wort.
  4. ... vomiting. Examples of supplements with this effect include black seed, L-tryptophan, SAMe, and St. John's wort.
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The American eclectic dispensatory 
    Publication: Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach, & Keys, 1854
    ... gynophore (receptacle,) two-valved, one or two-seeded. Seeds black and shining ; when solitary globose, when in pairs ... e. Bulbous. Flowers usually small. Integument of the seed black and brittle. 3. Allium. Flowers in a dense ...
  6. ... leaves. Poppy capsules. “ flowers, red. “ heads. “ leaves. Poppy seed, black. BOTANICAL NAMES. Amygdalus Persica. Caesalpinia Crista. Pastinaca sativa. ... Picraena excelsa. “ Quassia Simaruba. tt tt a Mustard seed. Black Mustard seed. See Hevea Gujanensis. ft if if “ ...
  7. ... China Cardamom. a. Fruit, b, Globular mass of seeds. Black Car da. mom. j8. SMALL ROUND CHINA CARDAMOM, ... a walnut, in its outer coat very prickly. Seeds black (Smith). Hah.—Indigenous: in waste ground and on ...
  8. ... Leptandra Yirginica. “ root, “ “ “ “ Cumin, Cummin, Cuminum cyminum. Cummin seed, “ “ “ Black, Nigella sativa. “ Sweet, Cummin seed, Cuminum cyminum. “ Wild, ... seed, Sinapis nigra. “ Scripture, Mustard tree, Salvadora Persica. “ seed, Black, Sinapis nigra. “ “ White, “ alba. “ “ Yellow, White mustard, “ “ “ Tower, ...
  9. ... greenish petals. Stamens numerous, anthers yellow, capsule leathery; seed black, shining, umbilicated, arranged in two rows; rhizome black ... nut-like, two-celled, two-beaked, dehiscing loculicidally; seeds black, oily, edible; bark and leaves bitter, astringent. Solvents, ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1852-1854
    ... blackish. They somewhat resemble several of the cruciferous seeds (black mustard, turnip, and rape), but are larger than ... a walnut, in its outer coat very prickly. Seeds black (Smith). Hab.—Indigenous; in waste ground and on ...
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