Definition of "hyoscyamus" []

• Any of the genus Hyoscamus of henbanes. (noun)
• The leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectoral troubles. (noun)

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• "Ammonius too bade us not be afraid, for he would not reply to any of our discourses; and Trypho likewise urging me to propose something, I said: To demonstrate that the ivy is cold is not so proper a task for me as Trypho, for he often useth coolers and binders; but that proposition, that wine in which ivy berries have been is more inebriating, is not true; for that disturbance which it raiseth in those that drink it is not so properly called drunkenness as alienation of mind or madness, such as hyoscyamus and a thousand other things that set men beside themselves usually produce."
• "“Bhang” (almost a generic term applied to hellebore, etc.) may be hyoscyamus or henbane."
• "On the other hand not a few apply the word to the henbane (hyoscyamus niger) so much used in mediæval Europe."