Blue bell (Polemonium reptans) also known as Abscess Root, American Greek Valerian, False Jacob's Ladder and Sweatroot is a plant of the family Polemoniaceae. It grows in damp woods by creeping roots. The stem is about five centimetres long, much branched and bearing pinnate leaves with six or seven pairs of leaflets. The flowers are nodding, blue in colour and hang in loose terminal bunches. A tincture of the root is used in medicine as an expectorant. Research Blue Bell
Jacob's Ladder is a thriller starring Tim Robbins in a story about a man either in Vietnam experiencing death traumas, or in America experiencing hallucinations at the hands of a military drug experiment. Jacob's Ladder was directed by Adrian Lyne. Research Jacob's Ladder
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