Handblown clear glass jar with rounded glass stopper with a hand painted gold label with black lettering; half full of brown seeds.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source unknown.
Dates
1850
1900
circa 1850-1900
Material
glass: translucent
seeds: brown
paint: gold, black
Inscriptions
On label: "S. Staphis"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"A Modern Herbal," by M. Griere, Penguin, 1980, pp. 770-1
Research Facts
Stavesacre seeds; a common name for delphinium staphisagria, a vermifuge, violent emetic and cathartic; very poisonous.
Stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria) is a flowering plant. The seeds of the plant have sometimes been used as medicine, even though they may be toxic.
People have used an extract from stavesacre seed on the skin for various skin conditions and for nerve pain. But there is no good scientific evidence to support any use.