A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . emaining after making cheese. It is used in medicine and pharmacy only in powder as a diluent ofactive remedies in a pulverulent form, being serviceable chiefly on ac-count of its great hardness and slow solubility in water. Sagx>. Sago. Origin.—Metroxylon Sagus, Koenig; Arenga saccharifera, Labill,and other allied palms. Habitat.—Indian Archipelago. Drug.—The prepared starch from the interior of the stem. Description .—Hardspherical grains about thesize of a pins head, whitish,with a slight brownish-yel-low or pinkish tint, and usu-ally more
A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . emaining after making cheese. It is used in medicine and pharmacy only in powder as a diluent ofactive remedies in a pulverulent form, being serviceable chiefly on ac-count of its great hardness and slow solubility in water. Sagx>. Sago. Origin.—Metroxylon Sagus, Koenig; Arenga saccharifera, Labill,and other allied palms. Habitat.—Indian Archipelago. Drug.—The prepared starch from the interior of the stem. Description .—Hardspherical grains about thesize of a pins head, whitish,with a slight brownish-yel-low or pinkish tint, and usu-ally more or less somewhat darkeron one side. Odorless ; tasteinsipid. Forms a gelatinous masswith boiling water. Varieties.—Pearl Sagois the finest and comes Brown Sago,of inferior quality and darker color. An artificial sagoFig. 460,-Sago Starch. jg made from potato starch> Constituents.—It is all starch. Uses.—Only as food. Being easily digested and quite palatable itis often used in the Salep Tubera. Salep. Origin.—Several species of Orchis, and other plants of the naturalorder Orchidacem, especially of the sub-order —Germany and used.—The new tubers formed during the year in which they UNITED STATES PHARMACOPOEIA. 877 are collected, the collection of them taking placein the autumn. Theyare deprived of the epidermis and dried. Description.—Irregularly oval, globular, or flattened roundishtubers ; hard, heavy ; translucent, with a bright yellowish or yellowish-gray color ; fracture homogeneous, horny, shining ; odorless ; taste in-sipid, mucilaginous. Constituents.—About forty-eight per cent, bassorin (or vegetablemucilage), and twenty-seven per cent, starch. Powdered salep forms,with forty times its weight of boiling water, a thick jelly. Medicinal Uses.—Nutritive and demulcent. A mucilage madefrom salep is occasionally employed as a vehicle for acrid or irritatingremedies. SALE
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