Ergot

(noun.) a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid.

(noun.) a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus.

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• Thoroughly bruise the granate bark and pumpkin-seed, and with the ergot boil in eight ounces of water for fifteen minutes, and strain through a coarse cloth. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.

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