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Collection of 28 herbs and drugs mentioned by William Shakespeare in his plays

Collection of 28 herbs and drugs mentioned by William Shakespeare in his plays

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Brown and green herb in the form of dried flowers and leaves, used as emulcent and for constipation, labelled 'plantain' and 'plantago major'

Brown and green herb in the form of dried flowers and leaves

1900-1931
Green herb in the form of dried leaves, labelled 'violet' and 'violet odorata'

Green herb in the form of dried leaves

1910-1931
Green herb in the form of dried leaves, used as purgative (anthraquinone), labelled 'senna' and 'cassia acutifolia'

Green herb in the form of dried leaves

1900-1931
Dark brown herb in the form of dried shoots, used as diuretic (mild), labelled 'broom & cytisus scoparius'

Dark brown herb in the form of dried shoots

1900-1931
Black herb, in the form of dried leaves, used as poison, labelled 'Hebenon, Yew Tree, Taxus Baccatta'

Black herb

1900-1931
Orange herb used as food dye and flavouring, labelled 'saffron' and 'croeus sativas'

Orange herb used as food dye and flavouring

1900-1931
Green herb in the form of shoots, used as antiflatulent, labelled 'fennel & foeniculum capillaceum'

Green herb in the form of shoots

1900-1931
Dark green herb in the form of leaves, used as poison (gastric pains) and flavouring, labelled 'rue ruta graveolens'

Dark green herb in the form of leaves

1900-1931
Blue herb, lavender seeds, used as perfume and carminative

Blue herb

1900-1931
Yellow herb, mustard seeds, used as condiment, emetic and counterirritant, labelled 'mustard' and 'brassica alba'

Yellow herb

1900-1931
Yellow herb used as poison, in the form of dried flowers, labelled 'hemlock' and 'conium maculatum'

Yellow herb used as poison

1900-1931
Black herb in the form of dried roots, used as poison (cardiac arrest), labelled 'monk's hood' and 'aconitum officinalis'

Black herb in the form of dried roots

1900-1931
White powdered drug used as poison (acute), labelled 'ratsbane', 'white arsenic', 'arsenious anhydride' and 'arsenic trioxide'

White powdered drug used as poison (acute)

1900-1931
Orange herb in the form of stripped roots, used as purgative and astringent, and for diarrhoea, labelled 'rhubarb' and rheum officinale'

Orange herb in the form of stripped roots

1900-1931
Brown and green herb in the form of dried shoots and flowers, labelled 'fumitory' and 'fumaria officinalis'

Brown and green herb in the form of dried shoots and flowers

1900-1931
White specimen used as cold creams, made from sperm whale blubber and oil, labelled 'parmaceti', 'spermaceti', 'cetaceum' and 'physeter macrocephalus'

White specimen used as cold creams

1900-1931
Brown herb in the form of dried flower buds, used as carminative, antiflatulent and flavouring. Labelled 'cloves' and 'carrophyllus aromatica'

Brown herb in the form of dried flower buds

1900-1931
Yellow herb in the form of dried bark, used for expulsion of tapeworms, labelled 'pomegranate' and 'punica granatum'

Yellow herb in the form of dried bark

1900-1931
Black herb in the form of dried liquid from cut leaves, used as purgative (anthraquinone and toxic), labelled ' aloe' 'aloe chinensis'

Black herb in the form of dried liquid from cut leaves

1900-1910
Black drug used for hiccups and hysteria and as sexual stimulant, dried secretions from musk deer, labelled 'musk moschus moschiferus'

Black drug used for hiccups and hysteria and as sexual stimulant

1900-1931
Green herb, dried rosemary shoots, used as carminative, hair lotions and for cooking, labelled 'rosemary & rosemary officinalis'

Green herb

1900-1931
Brown herb in the form of dried and powedred root stem, used as diuretic and diaphoretic, labelled 'burdock and arctium lappa'

Brown herb in the form of dried and powedred root stem

1900-1931
Green herb, in the form of leaves and flowers, used as cough remedy, labelled 'mallows & malva sylvestris'

Green herb

1900-1931
Green herb in the form of leaves and flowers, used as antispasmodic and anticholinergic, labelled 'henbane'

Green herb in the form of leaves and flowers

1900-1931
Yellow spherical dried fruit, used as laxative and purgative (drastic), labelled 'colcynth', 'colquintida' and 'citrudus colocynthis'

Yellow spherical dried fruit

1900-1931
Brown herb in the form of powdered seeds, used as vehicle for medicine and carminative, labelled 'caraway and carum carvi'

Brown herb in the form of powdered seeds

1900-1931
White and brown herb in the form of dried root stem, used as carminative and flavouring, labelled 'ginger & zingibar officinale'

White and brown herb in the form of dried root stem

1900-1931
Brown herb in the form of dried kernels, used as carminative and flavouring, labelled 'nutmeg' and 'myristica fragrans'

Brown herb in the form of dried kernels

1900-1931