[TigersEye]

I don't know many horticulturals but I know a lot of wild plants because I got into herbal medicine about 25 years ago. Mostly wild plants of western North America. If the White Hellebore is like the Green Hellebore, and it probably is, they picked a good poison to give a man who was drinking. It will drop BP dramatically and it doesn't take much.

They had no need to ferment it or disguise its bitter taste either. A 1:10 dry plant tincture is so potent it is used by the drop to slow heart rate and lower BP in someone with a bounding pulse and high fever. Only someone with a lot of experience would even think of using it.

[Carriage Hill]

You’re right. The entire Hellebore Genus is toxic, and although I have multiple advanced degrees in Marketing, Business and Horticulture, I know for sure that I’m not smart enough to mess with that stuff.