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Identifier: 61631000RX2.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The family flora and materia medica botanica: containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Good, Peter P. (Peter Peyto), 1789?-1875
Subjects: Plants, Medicinal Phytotherapy
Publisher: Elizabethtown, N.J. : P. Good
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condyear to the spring of the third year of its growth. The root is used with considerable success in diseases of thestomach and debility. It avails in intermittents, like other purebitters, and is extensively used in the Western States in fevers,colics, griping, nausea, relaxed stomach and bowels, indigestion,&c. As a purgative it is substituted for rhubarb in manycases, particularly for children and women enceinte. Cold wateris said to add to its efficacy and prevent nausea, and vomiting.A teaspoonful of the powder in hot water and sugar will give im-mediate relief in case of heavy loading a weak stomach. It is agood corrector of the bile, alone or united with other bitters. The Colombo leaves occasion sweat copiously when laid onthe forehead, and will commonly relieve headache. This willalso apply to any kind of inflammation, rheumatism, &c. Suchis the efficacy of this root, says Peter Smith, that when theywho take it recover, they are indeed well and need no othermedicine.
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N? 88.Jerspr-tea, red-root. **£ RHAMI\ACEiE. Buckthorns. N°- 88.CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS. Jersey tea, Red-root.Place—United States.Quality—Diuretic.Power—Purifying, purgative.Use—Dysentery, syphilitic complaints. BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. Natural Order. Dumocse.—L. Rhamnaceae.—J. Class V. Pentandria. Okder Monogynia. Linn. Sp. PI. 284. Loud. Ency. PI. 178. Raff. Med. Flor. ii. 205. TJ. S. Dis. 1240.T. & G. i. 264. Griff. Med. Bot. 218. Per. El- Mat. Med. 354. Beach. Fam. Ph.662. Kost. Mat. Med. 485. Wood, Class Book, 217. Genus. CEANOTHUS. KeavwOos is a name used by Theophratus to designate a prickly plant, from «*»,to prick, because it pricks at the extreme parts. Synonymes. THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. Calyx. Sepals four or five, united at base, valvate in aestiva-tion. Corolla. Petals four or five distinct, cuculiate or convolute,inserted into the orifice of the calyx. Sometimes wantingor none. Stamens. Opposite the petals, four or five. Ovary. Superior, or half superior, wi

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