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Then in March the most vivid of blues, the gentian, waves its tiny blooms in my rock garden.
They can include such herbs as dandelion root, aloe, artichoke, saffron, rhubarb root, gentian, angelica root, myrrh, and senna, to name a few.
For those who might be stimulated by this letter to try gentian violet for impetigo, the agent must be kept away from the cornea.
Bitter herbs that would help would be gentian, artichoke, bitter orange, turmeric, wormwood and chamomile.
This is best accomplished by blood cleansing tonics, especially with herbs like burdock, gentian, and sarsaparilla roots.
Felwort can be distinguished from moss gentian because of its growth-habit.
The incision was carefully sutured and the wound dabbed with 0.2 per cent gentian violet solution and boric acid powder.
In Western herbal medicine barberry root and gentian are used as bitter tonics to aid digestion.
Alpine forget-me-nots, snow gentian, moss campion and an abundance of saxifrages grow here on the steep slopes.
Individuals were marked for recognition when necessary with gentian violet.
For blue choose from gentian sage, lobelia, mealycup sage, nemesia, petunia, or verbena.
One of the oldest antifungal antiseptics available is gentian violet, which is very effective although extremely messy, staining everything it touches.
This Surrey Wildlife Trust reserve consists of 6.6 acres of chalk grassland with flowers including small scabious, fairy flax, yellow-wort common rock-rose and autumn gentian.
Description: The gentian stimulates the gustatory receptor related to the bitter taste, increasing salivary and gastric secretions.
Three threatened species grow on the foreshore: Parker's pipewort, Victorin's gentian and Victorin's water hemlock.
Its complex recipe gives it a mellow bitterness, probably due to the presence of tarragon and gentian.
If more people could experience the beauty of a Pine Barrens gentian or bog asphodel in bloom, there would be a lot more support for these disappearing species.
Present plants: Edelweiss, Pasque flower, Cobweb houseleek, Trumpet gentian, Spring gentian, Thrift.
Iodide and gentian violet have endured as therapeutic agents, while nystatin, an antifungal antibiotic, has shown some efficacy.
A sweet and sour liqueur, drunk as an appetiser and made, using traditional methods, from the roots of yellow gentian.
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I told the saleswoman to get me the best she had but it must be gentian blue.
Around her neck was the Necklace she wore in all the ages, showing greenish in a dusk of gentian blue.
Another guest room was done in gentian blue and white, with a little buff and rose-color in small things.
An aqueous or alcoholic solution of gentian violet or methyl violet is one of the best.
Often they make a dainty meal off the blossoms of the fringed blue gentian, the mariposa lily, and the harebell.
The mass of extract of chamomile met with in the shops is nothing but extract of gentian scented with a little oil of chamomile.
Discard the golden-rod for the gentian, and in turn forsake the gentian for the twin-flower?
Take three scruples each of mugwort, myrrh, gentian and pill.
Compound tincture of gentian is also, occasionally, so called.
Herbs such as gentian root, dandelion root, yellow dock, and barberry bark are well-known bitters.
The turf is starred with lilac gentian and crocus bells, but sparely.
Give some powdered cayenne and gentian, mixed with the usual food.
This has been well shown by Churchman in his work on gentian Violet.
The last glow of the sun lay along the earth, and all was gentian blue.
The best stain for acetic acid preparations is, perhaps, gentian violet.
He would chew camomile, gentian, tooth-picks, but it was of no use.
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