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County Herb Committee, the Glossary

Index County Herb Committee

The County Herb Committees were a nationwide medicinal plant collecting scheme, established by the British Ministry of Health during the Second World War.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 21 relations: Arthur William Hill, Atropa belladonna, Boy Scouts, Cardiac glycoside, Coke (fuel), Colchicum, Datura stramonium, Department of Health and Social Care, Digitalis purpurea, Fahrenheit, Girl Guides, Hyoscyamus, Islip, Oxfordshire, Ministry of Supply, Ronald Melville (botanist), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, University of Oxford Botanic Garden, Valerian (herb), Women's Institute, World War I, World War II.

  2. Herbalism organizations
  3. Pharmaceutical industry in the United Kingdom

Arthur William Hill

Sir Arthur William Hill (11 October 1875, in Watford – 3 November 1941, in Richmond) was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and a noted botanist and taxonomist.

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Atropa belladonna

Atropa belladonna, commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, is a toxic perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, which also includes tomatoes, potatoes and aubergine (eggplant).

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Boy Scouts

Boy Scouts may refer to.

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Cardiac glycoside

Cardiac glycosides are a class of organic compounds that increase the output force of the heart and decrease its rate of contractions by inhibiting the cellular sodium-potassium ATPase pump.

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Coke (fuel)

Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content.

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Colchicum

Colchicum is a genus of perennial flowering plants containing around 160 species which grow from bulb-like corms. County Herb Committee and Colchicum are Medicinal plants.

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Datura stramonium

Datura stramonium, known by the common names thornapple, jimsonweed (jimson weed), or devil's trumpet, is a poisonous flowering plant in the Daturae tribe of the nightshade family Solanaceae.

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Department of Health and Social Care

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Digitalis purpurea

Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove or common foxglove, is a toxic species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, native to and widespread throughout most of temperate Europe.

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Fahrenheit

The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).

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Girl Guides

Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only.

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Hyoscyamus

Hyoscyamus — known as the henbanes — is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

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Islip, Oxfordshire

Islip is a village and civil parish on the River Ray, just above its confluence with the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England.

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Ministry of Supply

The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK government formed on 1 August 1939 by the Ministry of Supply Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 38) to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.

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Ronald Melville (botanist)

Ronald Melville (12 March 1903 – 6 August 1985) He was an English botanist, based at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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University of Oxford Botanic Garden

The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain and one of the oldest scientific gardens in the world.

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Valerian (herb)

Valerian (Valeriana officinalis, Caprifoliaceae) is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. County Herb Committee and Valerian (herb) are Medicinal plants.

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Women's Institute

The Women's Institute (WI) is a community-based organization for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Herbalism organizations

Pharmaceutical industry in the United Kingdom

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Herb_Committee

Also known as County Herb Committees.