Note 104 — Chapter VI · JOHN PARKINSON, THE LAST OF THE GREAT ENGLISH HERBALISTS

Ibid., p. 422. Of this “Indian Spanish Counter poyson” Parkinson gives us the further interesting information that “the Indians doe not eate the bodies of those they have slaine by their poysoned arrowes untill they have lyen three or foure dayes with their wounds washed with the juice of this herbe; which rendereth them tender and fit to be eaten which before were hard.”