Snakeroot is one plant you should never grow in a home with pets for that reason. It contains the toxins tremetone, dehydrotremetone, and 2-oxyangeloyl-tremetone. It might keep snakes away, but ...

I am also going to prescribe Virginia snake-root, which you should take in teaspoonful doses. We can further relieve the kidneys though leeching, mustard-poultices, and croton oil.

Beneath my redbud, awash in spring with pink flowers, arises a new set of blooms. White ones, in late summer. These are the flowers of white snakeroot, a plant that reaches 3 to 4 feet tall, up to … ...