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  King's American Dispensatory, 1898: Veratrum Viride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As the obstacles to a free circulation are removed, and the vessels through which the blood is distributed and returned, regain their normal condition, there is less necessity for increased action upon part of the heart, and, as the power of the heart is increased, there is less necessity for frequent contraction.
Veratrum is a remedy for active febrile and inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract of the sthenic type.
Veratrum is a valuable expectorant, and is of marked value in chronic pulmonary affections, to control the circulation, and thereby regulate the temperature, besides acting as a powerful and efficient alterative.
www.ibiblio.org /herbmed/eclectic/kings/veratrum-viri.html   (2916 words)

  
 "NATURALLY...YOU!", Homeopathic Solutions--Proposed S.A.R.S. Vaccine & Treatment
Veratrum viride should not be used in tincture or very low forms, as it can be dangerous with its depressing effects on the heart.
One of the characteristic and confirmatory symptoms of Veratrum viride is a red (or white or dry) streak down the center of the tongue.
Veratrum viride is practically the number one remedy for congestive states leading to organ failure, the other symptoms of the case agreeing.
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 Veratrum viride, American Hellebore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If you come stumbling across Veratrum viride in the woods, just recover your footing and move on, unless you are looking for a stout, leafy herb for a shady portion of your garden.
Veratrum viride will make you quite ill if you ingest any part of it.
History of Veratrum viride American Indians and early colonists found medicinal uses for it, using the rhizome primarily.
www.todays-gardener.com /herbs/veratrum-viride.html   (719 words)

  
 Define Veratrum viride : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Indian poke (Bot.), a plant usually known as the white hellebore (Veratrum viride).
Indian pudding, a pudding of which the chief ingredients are Indian meal, milk, and molasses.
Veratrum viride n : North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally [syn: white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, bugbane]
www.indictionary.com /define/Veratrum_viride   (825 words)

  
 King's American Dispensatory, 1898: Veratrum Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
—Veratrum album is a perennial herb, with a fleshy, oblong, somewhat horizontal, premorse rhizome, about the thickness of a finger, flish or brownish-white externally, whitish or pale yellowish-white internally, having numerous fleshy, brownish-white fibers or true roots.
Jervine is feebly toxic, and is the most abundant of the veratrum alkaloids.
Minute doses of a tincture of Veratrum album are efficient in bowel disorders, with gushing, watery evacuations, there being more or less cramp-like or spasmodic action in the muscular
www.ibiblio.org /herbmed/eclectic/kings/veratrum-albu.html   (1002 words)

  
 VERATRUM - Definition
veratrum hellebore.] (Bot.) A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
Note: Veratrum album of Europe, and Veratrum viride of America, are both called hellebore.
They grow in wet land, have large, elliptical, plicate leaves in three vertical ranks, and bear panicles of greenish flowers.
www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/veratrum   (71 words)

  
 American Hellebore. Veratrum viride Ait.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
OTHER COMMON NAMES—True veratrum, green veratrum, American veratrum, green hellebore, swamp-hellebore, big hellebore, false hellebore, bear-corn, bugbane, bugwort, devil's-bite, earth-gall, Indian poke, itchweed, tickleweed, duckretter.
This species is a very near relative of the European white hellebore (Veratrum album L.), and in fact has by some been regarded as identical with it, or at least as a variety of it.
American Hellebore, official in the United States Pharmacopoeia, is an acrid, narcotic poison, and has emetic, diaphoretic, and sedative properties.
www.harvestfields.ca /HerbBooks/01/bkh07/046.htm   (525 words)

  
 False hellebore - Poisonous Plant Information
False hellebore (Veratrum viride) is a native perennial plant that is found in parts of eastern and western Canada.
Germidine is an alkaloid that was studied as a possible drug for hypertension (Claus and Tyler 1965).
Sheep are apparently less affected by ingesting false hellebore and can eat the leaves with apparent impunity after the leaves have been killed by frost (Reynard and Norton 1942, Dayton 1960).
www.cookiebabyinc.com /poisonousplants/falsehellebore.html   (614 words)

  
 Native Plant Information Network - Veratrum viride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is said that some Native American chiefs were selected only if they survived eating this poisonous plant.
USDA PLANTS: View account for Veratrum viride in the USDA PLANTS database
Veratrum viride in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
wildflower2.org /NPIN/Plants/Detail.asp?Scientific_Name=Veratrum+viride   (175 words)

  
 VERATRUM VIRIDE - HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA - By William BOERICKE
VERATRUM VIRIDE - HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA - By William BOERICKE
Induces fall of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Clinically, it is known that such diseases as Tiegel's contracture, Thompson's Disease, athetosis and pseudo-hypertrophic muscular paralysis present a symptomatology quite like that produced by Veratrum vir upon muscular tissue (A. Hinsdale, M. Mind.--
www.homeoint.org /books/boericmm/v/verat-v.htm   (143 words)

  
 Define Veratrum : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
[L. veratrum hellebore.] (Bot.) A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
[1913 Webster] Note: Veratrum album of Europe, and Veratrum viride of America, are both called hellebore.
Veratrum n : a genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae [syn: genus Veratrum]
www.indictionary.com /define/Veratrum   (283 words)

  
 Poisonous Plants For Llamas and other livestock-False Hellebore-(Veratrum viride)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is native to moist pastures and open woods.
The poisonous principle effectively lowers blood pressure and veratrum preparations are used as medicines.
Symptoms of poisoning are headaches, hallucinations and burning of the mouth and throat.
www.llamalovers.com /falsehellebore.html   (89 words)

  
 Veratrum viride - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Veratrum viride
Veratrum viride is not available in the Hutchinson encyclopedia.
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encyclopedia.farlex.com /Veratrum+viride   (89 words)

  
 Dictionary.com/white hellebore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
White heat, the temperature at which bodies become incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which they emit.
White hellebore (Bot.), a plant of the genus Veratrum (V.
White herring, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as distinguished from a red, or cured, herring.
dictionary.reference.com /search?q=white+hellebore   (1579 words)

  
 Ask Jeeves Results - veratrum
The teratogenic Veratrum alkaloid cyclopamine inhibits sonic hedgehog signal transduction...
Plant Profile for Veratrum viride (green false hellebore)
Veratrum ALbum 30X 250 Tabs by Hylands, Veratrum Album is an important first aid remedy.
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 veratrum alkaloids from On-line Medical Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alkaloids with powerful hypotensive effects isolated from american or european hellebore (veratrum viride ait.
They increase cholinergic and decrease adrenergic tone with appropriate side effects and at higher doses depress respiration and produce cardiac arrhythmias; only the ester alkaloids have been used as hypotensive agents in specific instances.
Previous: veratridine, veratrina, veratrine, veratrol, veratrum, Veratrum album
cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk /cgi-bin/omd?veratrum+alkaloids   (88 words)

  
 Fa. C. Esveld List of available slides of plants of the genus Veratrum
List of available slides from the genus Veratrum.
The slides listed below are available from us as scans in JPG format.
These are part of our on-line plant catalogue, but are also linked in this list for your use at the same terms as above.
www.esveld.nl /dialijsten/dialistgVeratrum.html   (167 words)

  
 Classification Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Species Veratrum fimbriatum Gray -- fringed false hellebore P
Species Veratrum insolitum Jepson -- Siskiyou false hellebore P
Species Veratrum tenuipetalum Heller -- Colorado false hellebore P
plants.usda.gov /classification/output_report.cgi?3|S|VERAT|b|140|+63   (107 words)

  
 veratrum
See {Veratrum}.] (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore ({Veratrum}) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Veratrum \Ve*ra"trum\, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Veratrum n : a genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae [syn: {Veratrum}, {genus Veratrum}]
www.beetfoundation.com /words/v/veratrum.html   (202 words)

  
 Veratrum Viride - Homeopathic Remedies
The following are the indications of Veratrum Viride, as it relates to stool.
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Please remember though, this homeopathy materia medica is provided for information only; it is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, nor as a claim for the effectiveness of Veratrum Viride in treating any of the symptoms below.
www.abchomeopathy.com /r.php/Verat-v/stool   (131 words)

  
 Veratrum viride
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Armitage says: "Veratrum does not perform particularly well under the stress of high heat and humidity and is more suited for zones 4-6 than zones 7 and 8."
Armitage says: "This species is both interesting and ornamental.Division in the fall or early spring is a more effective and faster means of propagation."
www.giyp.com /vpt.asp?co=410087&pID=48007&cID=11&r=GIYP   (90 words)

  
 Plant Profile for Veratrum viride (green false hellebore)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
View all Veratrum thumbnails at the PLANTS Gallery
See county distributions for the following states by clicking on them below or on the map.
View 105 genera in Liliaceae, 7 species in Veratrum
plants.usda.gov /cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=VEVI   (230 words)

  
 Washington Native Plant Society: Photograph of Veratrum viride
Washington Native Plant Society: Photograph of Veratrum viride
Habitat: Meadows, bogs, swamps, open forests, from lowlands to subalpine elevations
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 american hellebore
The medicinal use of American hellebore became more important during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was classified...
American Hellebore - Veratrum Viride Angelica Archangelica Anise - Pimpinella Anisum Arnica - Arnica montana Autumn Crocus- Colchicum autumnale Barberry - Berberis...
The dried rhizome and roots of Vera'trum vir'ide Aiton (American).
www.logicjungle.com /find-american+hellebore.html   (331 words)

  
 poisonous plants 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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False or White Hellebore in flower (Veratrum viride)
Highly or fatally toxic although it is used in phamaceutical drugs to slow heart rate, lower blood pressure; for arteriosclerosis, forms of nephritis.
www.naturallist.com /plantpo2.htm   (118 words)

  
 PlantFiles: Detailed information on Green False Hellebore, Indian Poke (Veratrum viride)
Early Americans used Veratrum medicinally, and it is used in pharmaceuticals today, but its toxic alkaloids make this plant poisonous to ingest.
As it grows, the leaves swirl around the plant in an interesting way.
I first noticed V. viride in a low area on a neighbor's property in Seward, Alaska.
www.davesgarden.com /pf/go/53080/index.html   (315 words)

  
 Herbal Materia Medica - Hellebore (Veratrum viride or album)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Herbal Materia Medica - Hellebore (Veratrum viride or album)
Hellebore - Veratrum viride or album (in the Liliaceae or Lily family)
Dosage: 1-10 drops every 2-4 hours as needed until blood pressure is under control.
www.herbaltransitions.com /materiamedica/Veratrum.htm   (191 words)

  
 Hazen's Notch Association > Vermont Nature News™ > Plants > False Hellebore - Veratrum viride
Hazen's Notch Association > Vermont Nature News™ > Plants > False Hellebore - Veratrum viride
The Hazen's Notch Association is a non-profit conservation organization located in montgomery center, vermont.
This page was last updated on May 27, 2005
www.hazensnotch.org /hellebore.htm   (347 words)

  
 Veratrum viride Aiton var. eschscholzianum (Roem. & Schult.) Breitung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
American wild hellebore, green false hellebore, Indian poke
viride of eastern North America, taxonomy follows FNA
Veratrum viride Aiton [H&C] Veratrum eschscholtzianum (J.A. Schultes) Rydb.
flora.ilangainc.com /Liliaceae/Liliaceae80.html   (25 words)

  
 The Global Compendium of Weeds: Veratrum viride Aiton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Global Compendium of Weeds: Veratrum viride Aiton
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