valerian

How To Use valerian In A Sentence

• Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
• Valerian also inhibits the enzyme-induced breakdown of GABA in the brain, with concomitant sedation.
• This way, when you buy some valerian root or St. John's wort, you'll know if there are any adverse reactions that you could get by using the herbal medication.
• Other disasters include sorrel that grew well but attracted a nasty black beetle, valerian that soon dwarfed the conifer it was expected to complement, and strawberries.
• Valerian turned the wire mesh ball over in her hands as she thought back through her sister's letters.
• Other sleep promoting herbs include valerian, Californian poppy, skullcap, hops and passionflower.
• Down by the pool, sown among the large white rocks that were dug out of the hillside to accommodate it, are white valerians, more grasses, lavenders and sages.
• Our coin of Valerian II is clearly billon of the type used in the first years of the reign.
• The most commonly used herbs are echinacea, St. John's wort, ginkgo biloba, garlic, saw palmetto, ginseng, goldenseal, aloe, Siberian ginseng and valerian.
• The cold solution is added to 1-1/4 parts of the above valerianic acid; the mixture is warmed for some minutes (not too long or too much) in a water-bath, and then mixed with a little water, by which means the impure valerianate of amyloxide separates, which is washed with water and carbonate of soda. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants