A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . hol ; macerate twenty-four hours ; pack ittightly in a cylindrical percolator, and percolate with diluted alcoholuntil three hundred grams (10 ounces, or about 10 fluidounces) tincturehas been obtained. Dose.—Four to eight cubic centimeters (1 to 2 fluidrachms). Cubeba; U. S. ClJBEB. Cubeboe Fructus—Kubeben, G. ; Cubebe, JPoivre a queue, F. ; Cubeba,Sp. ; Kubeber, Sw. ; Cubebs, Cubeb Berries. Origin.— Cubeba officinalis, Miquel (Piperaceai). Habitat.—Java ; cultivated. Part used.—The unripe fruit, dried. Description.—See the Pharmacopoeia, page 8
A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . hol ; macerate twenty-four hours ; pack ittightly in a cylindrical percolator, and percolate with diluted alcoholuntil three hundred grams (10 ounces, or about 10 fluidounces) tincturehas been obtained. Dose.—Four to eight cubic centimeters (1 to 2 fluidrachms). Cubeba; U. S. ClJBEB. Cubeboe Fructus—Kubeben, G. ; Cubebe, JPoivre a queue, F. ; Cubeba,Sp. ; Kubeber, Sw. ; Cubebs, Cubeb Berries. Origin.— Cubeba officinalis, Miquel (Piperaceai). Habitat.—Java ; cultivated. Part used.—The unripe fruit, dried. Description.—See the Pharmacopoeia, page 88. Cubeb is about the size and shape of black pepper, dark grayish-brown, often covered with an ash-gray bloom, very much wrinkled onthe outside by the drying of the fleshy covering, the wrinkles radiatingfrom the stalk ; internally light colored, hollow, either empty or contain-ing a shrunken undeveloped seed. Odor strong, aromatic, somewhatreminding of thyme and of camphor ; taste bitter, pungent. UNITED STATES PHARMACOPCEIA. 3S5. Figs. 207-211.—Cubebs. Natural size, enlarged,transverse and longitudinal sections and embryo,enlarged. A good drug is recognized by the strong odor brought out whenthe berries are crushed. A drug containing a considerable quantity ofstalks, or of pale, smooth,ripe berries, which look drywhen broken, should be. re-jected. Adulterants of cubebahave not been met with inthis country. Constituents.—A vola-tile oil, of which the drugyields all the way from fourto fifteen per cent., four per cent, resin (including the cubebic acid),some cubebin, fixed oil, etc. The volatile oil is the most important constituent. For description,see Qubebm Oleum. Cubebic acid is present to the extent of about oneper cent., constituting one-fourth of the resin of the cubeb, the remain-ing three-fourths being indifferent resin. [According to other author-ities the drug contains per cent, cubebic acid, besides per ~\ The resins are said to p
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