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Common broom (Cytisus scoparius): flowering stem. Watercolour.
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Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link Fabaceae. Common broom, Genista. Distribution: Western and central Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Genista. Broom: … clense and open the stomach, break the stone in the reins [kidneys] and bladder, help the green sickness [anaemia]. Let such as are troubled with heart qualms or faintings, forbear it, for it weakens the heart and spirit vital' and in respect of the flowers he writes: 'Broome-flowers, purge water, and are good in dropsies [now regarded as heart failure with fluid retention].' Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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The constitution of cytisine, the alkaloid of Cytisus laburnum. Pt. 1. The synthesis of [alpha]-cytisolidine and of [beta]-cytisolidine / by Arthur James Ewins.
Ewins, Arthur James.Date: 1913- Books
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The physiological action of cytisine, the active alkaloid of laburnum (cytisus-laburnum) / by H.H. Dale and P.P. Laidlaw.
Dale, Henry Hallett, 1875-1968.Date: 1912- Books
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The constitution of cytisine, the alkaloid of cytisus laburnum. Pt. 1, The synthesis of alpha-cytisolidine and of beta-cytisolidine / by Arthur James Ewins.
Ewins, Arthur James.Date: [1912?]