feverfew

/fee-ver-fyoo/US // ˈfi vərˌfyu //UK // (ˈfiːvəˌfjuː) //

炎黄子孙,炎黄素,炎炎夏日,炎帝

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a bushy composite plant, Chrysanthemum parthenium, bearing small white flowers, formerly used as a remedy for fever and headache.

They sat down on the sour stony land among the rag-wort and teazles and feverfew.
When she comes out of her bath, give her an ounce of syrup of feverfew with a drachm of dog's tooth (mithridate).
If she be of full habit of body open a vein, after preparing her with syrup of betony, calamint, hyssop and feverfew.
Pellitory, pel′i-tor-i, n. a genus of plants found most commonly on old walls and heaps of rubbish: the feverfew.
Feverfew is said to be "good for such as be melancholike, sad, pensive, and without speech."