A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and animal kingdoms for the use of students, druggists, pharmacists, and physicians / by John M. Maisch.

  • Maisch, John M. (John Michael), 1831-1893.
Date:
1882
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Credit: A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and animal kingdoms for the use of students, druggists, pharmacists, and physicians / by John M. Maisch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    posed of two reddish layers and marked with numer- ous minute resinous dots; wood tough, whitish, with fine medullary rays, and in the rhizome with a thin pith ; nearly inodorous, taste bitter. The rhizome of Gillenia trifoliata is smaller and less knotty; the rootlets smoother and less distinctly annulate. Constituents.—Gillenin, resin, tannin, starch, etc. Gillenin is a whitish powder, bitter, neutral, soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, and colored blood-red by nitric acid. Properties.—Mild emetic. Dose, 1.0 to 2.0 grams (gr. xv-xxx). AEALIA EACEMOSA.—American Spikenard. Origin.—Aralia racemosa, Lin. Natural order, Araliaceae. Habitat.—North America, in rich woods. Description.—Oblique, 10 or 15 centimeters (4 or G inches) long, with prominent concave stem-scars about 3 centimeters (li inch) broad, pale brown, internally whitish. Boots numerous, long, about 25 millimeters (1 inch) thick at the base, little branched, wrinkled, pale brown, breaking with a short fracture, internally whitish; of a peculiar aromatic odor and taste. Constituents. — Probably volatile oil, resin, starch, sugar, etc. Properties.—Stimulant, diaphoretic, alterative, ex- pectorant. Dose, 2.0 to 4.0 grams (3ss-j) in infusion.