A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . Figs. 485-487. —Senooio, with leaves attached at? in crude drug, natural size; leaf, reduced;infloresoence, natural size. Part used.—The whole plant. Description.—See the figures. The ray-florets are yellow. Theroot has a bitter, somewhat acrid taste. UNITED STATES PHARMACOPCEIA. 911 Constituents.—No analysis. Medicinal Uses-—As the name squaw-weed implies, this plantwas used by the Indians, and after them by the laity and physicians, asa remedy in female complaints, amenorrhcea, dysmenorrhea, etc. It isdiuretic. Best given as fluid exteact, made
A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . Figs. 485-487. —Senooio, with leaves attached at? in crude drug, natural size; leaf, reduced;infloresoence, natural size. Part used.—The whole plant. Description.—See the figures. The ray-florets are yellow. Theroot has a bitter, somewhat acrid taste. UNITED STATES PHARMACOPCEIA. 911 Constituents.—No analysis. Medicinal Uses-—As the name squaw-weed implies, this plantwas used by the Indians, and after them by the laity and physicians, asa remedy in female complaints, amenorrhcea, dysmenorrhea, etc. It isdiuretic. Best given as fluid exteact, made with diluted alcohol as a men-struum. Dose.—Five to ten cubic centimeters (1 to 2| fluidrachms). Senega; U. S. —Poly gala Senega, Linne (Polygalacece).Habitat.—The Southern States of the United used.—The —Seethe Pharmacopoeia, page 291. The figures rep-. FlGS. 488-500.—Senega, natural size and transverse sections, enlarged. resent the upper portion of a pretty large specimen of Southern Senega,and of transverse sections of different specimens of this root. A spindle-shaped, branched, somewhat tortuous root, with a thick,knotty crown. The crown is from four to six millimeters (-J- to £ inch) 912 A COMPAOTON TO THE in diameter, and the root about ten centimeters (4 inches) long. In thedrug the roots are pretty distinctly keeled, the keel running spirallyfrom crown to apex. Externally wrinkled lengthwise, yellowish-brownor yellowish-gra} • bark thick. Soaked in water the root becomesround and plump. Odor slight but disagreeable ; taste at first insipid,sweetish, afterward acrid. Southern Senega is the best. Spurious senega is not infrequently met with. The roots of PolygalaJBoykinii, and other species of polygala resemble true senega. North-ern Senega, although perhaps collected from the same plant as the Southern Senega, contains o
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