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Boneset

noun
1.
European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America.  Synonyms: common comfrey, Symphytum officinale.
2.
Perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine.  Synonyms: agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort.



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"Boneset" Quotes from Famous Books



... Aunt Eliza; and she got up, slipped her wrapper on, and brewed Aurora a big bowl of boneset tea. Oh, how nice and bitter and fragrant it was, and how Aunt Eliza's nostrils sniffed, and how her eyes sparkled as she sipped ...
— The Holy Cross and Other Tales • Eugene Field

... view, now the sky, now the mile-off woods on the hill, and now the apple orchards. What a contrast from New York's or Philadelphia's streets! Everywhere great patches of dingy-blossom'd horse-mint wafting a spicy odor through the air, (especially evenings.) Everywhere the flowering boneset, and the rose-bloom of ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... about your ma? Land, she'll get well. All she wants is a bit o' boneset tea, or sage an' sassafras. I'll go yarb hunting to-morrow, if I get my garden ploughed. Cleena'll stew it. Say, have you heard my new one? ...
— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond



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