bogbean


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perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves

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For example he recommended bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata L.) for rheumatism, kidney inflammation and stomach complaints, and his student and successor as Professor of Medicine at Uppsala University, Carl Peter Thunberg, published a thesis on the use of bogbean.
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