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Valeriana Officinalis (Valerian)
Rowan McOnegal- Digital Images
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Valeriana Officinalis, Common Valerian
Sue Snell- Pictures
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Valerian (Valeriana officinalis): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: 10 May 1924Reference: 25607i- Pictures
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Valerian (Valeriana officinalis L.): flowering stem with separate rooting stem and floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16779i- Pictures
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Valerian (Valeriana dioscoriodes Sibth.): flowering stem with separate rooting stem and floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16781i- Books
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Valerian. Or, the virtues of that root in nervous disorders; and the characters which distinguish the true from the false / by John Hill.
Hill, JohnDate: 1758- Books
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Valerian. Or, the virtues of that root in nervous disorders; and the characters which distinguish the true from the false. By John Hill, M. D. Illustrated with Figures.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Valerian. Or, the virtues of that root in nervous disorders; and the characters which distinguish the true from the false. By John Hill, M. D. Illustrated with Figures.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
Ot Geraklite do Darvina / [Valerian Viktorovich Lunkevich].
Lunkevich, V. V. (Valerian Viktorovich), 1866-1941.Date: 1960-- Ephemera
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Products of repute : Idozan : Gynomin : Valerian Dragées.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Ephemera
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As a nerve-sedative : Valerian-Dispert : a valerian concentrate without odour and taste.
Date: [between 1957 and 1967?]- Digital Images
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Valeriana officinalis L. Valerianaceae Valerianus, Phu, Nardus sylvestris, Setwal. Distribution: Europe. Popular herbalism attributes sedation to Valerian, but this is not mentioned by Coles (1657) or Gerard (1633) or Lobel (1576) or Lyte (1578) or Dioscorides (ex Gunther, 1959) or Fuchs (1553), where he quotes Pliny, Dioscorides and Galen, or Parkinson (1640), or Pomet (1712). The English translation of Tournefort (1719-1730) covers a whole page of the uses of all the different valerians, but never mentions sedation or treating anxiety. Quincy (1718) does not mention it. Because it was used in epilepsy, for which Woodville (1792) says it was useless, Haller, in his Historia stirpium indegenarum Helvetae inchoatae (1768) advocates it for those with irritability of the nervous system, as does Thomson's London Dispensatory (1811) although he lists it as an 'antispasmodic and stimulant' and for inducing menstruation. Lindley (1838) notes (as many did) that the roots smell terrible and that this makes cats excited, and in man, in large doses, induce 'scintillations, agitation and even convulsions' so used in asthenic fever, epilepsy, chorea, hysteria and as an antihelminthic.' Fluckiger & Hanbury (1879) give a wonderful account of the history of its names, but give its use as 'stimulant and antispasmodic' as do Barton & Castle (1877). but by 1936 (Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia) its only use was 'Given in hysterical and neurotic conditions as a sedative. Its action has been attributed to its unpleasant smell'. The European Medicines Agency (2006) approves its use as a traditional herbal medicine for mild anxiety and sleeplessness for up to 4 weeks. Despite what is written continuously about its use in ancient Greece and Rome, the only reason for its use has been because it was thought, for a brief while, to be good for epilepsy and therefore might deal with persons of a nervous disposition because of its foul smell. It has been suggested that even its Greek name, 'Phu' came from the expression of disgust which is made when one sniffs an unpleasant odour. For 1,800 years, before the last century, no-one had thought it sedative. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Valeriano Luigi Brera. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu, 1828.
Date: 1828Reference: 1371i- Pictures
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Valeriano Luigi Brera. Stipple engraving by Fratelli Bordiga after Mora.
Reference: 1370i- Books
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Valeriani Magni, ... Principiorum Philosophiae. Editio 2. Continens. Axiomata. ..
Magni, Valeriano 1587-1661Date: 1661- Digital Images
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Valeriana pyrenaica L. Valerianaceae Distribution: Pyrenees. It has no medical use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Valeriana pyrenaica L. Valerianaceae Distribution: Pyrenees. It has no medical use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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Valeriana oder von denen Tugenden der Baldrian-Wurzel in denen Krankheiten und Zufällen der Nerven, nebst denen Kennzeichen wodurch die wahre von der unächten kan unterschieden werden / Aus dem Englischen des John Hill, ins Teutsche übersetzt und mit illum. Figuren erläutert.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1765- Digital Images
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Polemonium caeruleum L. Polemoniaceae Jacob's ladder, Greek Valerian. Hardy perennial. Distribution: Temperate Europe. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Beck, 2005), and Lyte (1578) recommended it drunk in wine, for malignant ulcers, dysentery, difficulty in micturition, hip disease. The root was worn round the neck to protect against scorpions, and stopped toothache if chewed. Called Valerian Graeca by Dodoens (1551) and Parkinson (1640), Valeriana peregrina Belgarum by Lobel (1576). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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Traité des maladies vermineuses, précédé de l'histoire naturelle des vers et de leur origine dans le corps humain ... / Par Valérian-Louis Brera. Traduit de l'Italien et augmenté des notes, par les Citoyens J. Bartoli, et Calvet.
Brera, Valeriano Luigi, 1772-1840.Date: 1804- Books
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Sacred eloquence: or discourses selected from the writings of St. Basil the Great, and St. John Chrysostom; With the Letter of St. Eucherius Bishop of Lyons To his Kinsman Valerian on the contempt of the world. Translated from the Greek & Latin originals. To which are prefixed Introductory Accounts of the Lives of these fathers. By the Rev. William Henry Coombes, S. T. P.
Coombes, William Henry, 1767-1850.Date: M,DCC,XCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Botanical tracts, by Dr. Hill, Viz. 1. Usefulness of a Knowledge of Plants. 2. Outlines of a System of Vegetable Generation. 3. The Origin of Double Flowers. 4. The Origin of Proliferous Flowers. 5. The Sleep of Plants. 6. The History and Virtues of Valerian. 7. An Account of the Mushroom Stone. To which are added 1. The Method of Propagating Trees by their Parts, by Mr. T. Barnes, a Correspondent, 2. The Practice of Gardening, by Mr. T. Perfect, a Pupil of Dr. Hill. Publish'd at various Times. Now first Collected together.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1762- Books
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The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill].
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1772- Books
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O vliianii khinina na obrazovanie granuliatsionnoi tkani : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / Valeriana Sokolova ; tsenzorami, po porucheniiu Konferentsii, byli professory N.P. Ivanovskii, M.S. Subbotin i pr.-dots. N.V. Uskov.
Sokolov, Valerian Ivanovich, 1860-Date: 1891- Books
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O bakteriinom porazhenii pochek pri briushnom tifie (patologo-anatomicheskoe i bakterioskopichesko izsliedovanie) : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / Valeriana Koniaeva ; tsenzorami, po porucheniiu Konferentsii, byli professora N.P. Ivanovskii, V.A. Manassein, priv.-dots. N.V. Uskov.
Koniaev, Valerian Semenovich, 1861-Date: 1888