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This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
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Daphne
a genus of plants belonging calyx without appendages, stamens 8 to to the Thymelxacex. Orifice of the Thymelæacex. Orifice of the simple, fruit succulent. D. laureola is 10, inclosed within the calyx, stigma the the spurge laurel. It is an evergreen. has deciduous leaves and found in the temperate districts of Asia very fragrant flowers. They are all very fragrant flowers.
They are all well as that of the branches, of D. and Europe. The bark of the root, as diaphoretic in cutaneous and syphilitic mezereon is used in decoction as a affections. In large doses it is an irpoison, causing hypercatharsis. Used ex contains a ventral crystalline principle, externally it acts as a vesicant . It called daphnein . The fruit is poisonous.
The barks of D. gnidium, D. alpina, D.
D pontica, and D. laureola have similar properties. The berries of the last are poisonous to all animals except birds. The inner bark of D. lagetta, when cut into thin pieces after maceration, tion, assumes a beautiful net-like appearance, whence it has received the name of lace-bark. order Cladocera, family Daphniadæ. D.