The plant is poisonous.
Application
Historically, dorothea lily has been used as a plaster on swollen breasts of postpartum women and on burns.
Legend has it that when St. Dorothea was martyred, an angel was sent to Earth with a basket full of white lilies from the herb garden of heaven. They are always one of the first things to emerge from the ground in the very early spring, so they can bloom on St. Dorothea's Day, February 6th.
Now the dorothea lily is considered only an ornamental plant.
Ingredients
The alkaloid leucojin
Photo of page in Joachim Burser's herbarium.
