Meanings of aconitum in English

From the root of Aconitum Napellus are prepared a liniment and a tincture.

Other related alkaloids are lycaconitine and myoctonine which occur in wolfsbane, Aconitum lycoctonum.

Aconitum lycoctonum, wolfsbane, is a yellow-flowered species common on the Alps of Switzerland.

It is the Aconitum of medicine, the Monk's-hood or Wolf's-bane' of our ancestors.

Aconitum palmatum yields another of the celebrated bikh poisons.

They put hereinto Eleoselinum, Aconitum, frondes populeas, & Soote.

Aconitum Napellus, common monkshood, is a doubtful native of Britain, and is of therapeutic and toxicological importance.

The roots of Aconitum ferox supply the famous Indian (Nepal) poison called bikh, bish or nabee.

But of the very few flowers in my garden at the moment the best is the monkshood Aconitum carmichaelii.

The root of Aconitum luridum, of the Himalayas, is said to be as virulent as that of A. ferox or A. Napellus.

Pseudaconitine, obtained from Aconitum ferox, gives on hydrolysis acetic acid and veratrylpseudaconine, the latter of which suffers further hydrolysis to veratric acid and pseudaconine.