📚 noun • entry_id 53386
eyebright
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ojo brillante
Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections.
He looks for eyebright, a tiny flowering herb he has seen before, and which he knows would make a good eye-wash: not to be found.
Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth.
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