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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elecampane \El`e*cam*pane"\, n. [F. ['e]nulecampane, NL. inula campana; L. inula elecampane + LL. campana a bell; cf. G. glockenwurz, i. e., ``bellwort.'']
(Bot.) A large, coarse herb ( Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.
A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.
Wiktionary
n. A tall Eurasian herb, (taxlink Inula helenium species noshow=1=1), whose roots have been used medicinally
WordNet
n. tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally [syn: Inula helenium]
Wikipedia
Elecampane , Inula helenium, also called horse-heal or (in Welsh), is a widespread plant species in the sunflower family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and Asia from Spain to Xinjiang Province in western China, and naturalized in parts of North America.
Other common names include elfdock; aunée (French); helenio, enula campana (Spanish); Echter Alant (German); and enula campana (Italian).
Usage examples of "elecampane".
Furthermore, Elecampane counteracts the acidity of gouty indigestion, and regulates the monthly illnesses of women.
Moreover, at the present time, when there is so much talk about the inoculative treatment of pulmonary consumption by the cultivated virus of its special microbe, it is highly interesting to know that the helenin of Elecampane is said to be peculiarly destructive to the bacillus of tubercular disease.
As a result of further research, it is considered that the crystalline mass yielded by Elecampane root on distillation with water in the proportion of 1 to 2 per cent, and associated with about 1 per cent volatile oil, consists of Alantolactone, iso-alantolactone and Alantolic acid, all of which are crystalline, nearly colourless, and have but slight odour and taste.
The candy may still be had from our confectioners, but now containing no more of the plant Elecampane than there is of barley in Barley Sugar.
Elecampane is a corruption of the ante-Linnaean name Enula campana, so called from its growing wild in Campania.
Besides the common garden vegetables, there were Yellow-Dock, Lemon Balm, Hyssop, Gill-go-over-the-ground, Mouse-ear, Chick-weed, Roman Wormwood, Elecampane, and other plants.
Finally, with a decoction of elecampane roots and wild cherry bark to help, the cough quieted and she returned to her bed.