Centaury

Like all stomach bitters, centaurium - also known as Centaury, helps to stimulate the tastebuds, increasing the secretion of digestive enzymes that help to break down food.

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Another herb called Centaury stimulates the liver, particularly supporting the routine cleansing of the blood.

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'Home' used to be in Twentieth Centaury Poland for me, a decent engineer named Conrad Schwartz.

Lord Conrads Crusade Frankowski, Leo 2005

  After all, I had introduced the game to the Thirteenth Centaury in the first place.

Lord Conrads Crusade Frankowski, Leo 2005

Centaury, especially of that _flore albo_ -- with the light coloured petals -- are given in infusion, or in powder, or when made into an extract.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Though growing commonly in dry pastures, in woods, and on chalky cliffs, yet the Centaury cannot be reared in a garden.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Centaury, particularly its white flowered variety, belonging to the

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Centaury has become popularly reduced in Worcestershire to Centre of the Sun.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Centaury, square stemmed, and each bearing flat tufts of flowers which are more or less rose coloured.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

It was the Centaurea, represented here by the blue Ragged Sailor of gardens, and not our Centaury, a distinctly American group of plants, which, Ovid tells us, cured a wound in the foot of the Centaur Chiron, made by an arrow hurled by Hercules.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891