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n. - Tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally.

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  • Take powdered elecampane root, powdered liquorice root, powdered anise seed, and sulphur, of each one dram.
  • The elecampane-root tea was cooled and Ayla wakened the old woman who had dozed off, tenderly cradling her head while she fed her the medicine.
  • What words can speak affection to the child like elecampane -- what language assures us of the remembrance of an absent friend like a brace of wood-cocks?
  • This is the classic version; clinically Michael has developed his own preferred version, which adds a number of Western herbs, including elecampane, echinacea, boneset,...
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