Requests: If you need specific information on this remedy - e.g.
a proving or a case info on toxicology or whatsoever, please
post a message in the Request area www.homeovision.org/forum/ so
that all users may contribute. Its name is derived from L.
fumus, smoke, because of the smoky odour of some species.
Another explanation is the old belief that, besides seed, the
plant could also have come into existence from vapour or smoke
that has come out of the ground. Historically the plant was
burned and it was believed that the smoke was a purifying agent.
Ancient exorcists thought that the smoke had the power to expel
evil spirits. Magicians and witches believed that they became
invisible when they stood in the smoke. In Germany, it was
thrown in the fire to prevent thunderstorms. "Physicians and
writers from Dioscorides to Chaucer, and from the fourteenth
century to Cullen and to modern times value its purifying power.
French and German physicians still prefer it to most other
medicines as a purifier of the bloo