A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . ough varying much in cjuality, israrely or ever adulterated in this country. Moreover, theonly substitution we have any direct knowledge of is thesubstance known as calumba wood, first described by •I Mcnisper)iiacc(f. ] Cocculus hidiciis. 29 Hanbury, and afterwards traced by him to Cosciniidufcncstra-fmn, Colebr., a native of Ceylon, and belonging, like the truecalumba plant, to the orderMenispermacece. It is found inthe form of tr
A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . ough varying much in cjuality, israrely or ever adulterated in this country. Moreover, theonly substitution we have any direct knowledge of is thesubstance known as calumba wood, first described by •I Mcnisper)iiacc(f. ] Cocculus hidiciis. 29 Hanbury, and afterwards traced by him to Cosciniidufcncstra-fmn, Colebr., a native of Ceylon, and belonging, like the truecalumba plant, to the orderMenispermacece. It is found inthe form of transverse slices ofthe stem {fg. 9), but readilydistinguished by their differenceof structure, greater smooth-ness and hardness, and fromnot being contracted in thecentre. Of late years calumbawood has also been offered inthe London drug sales as thestems of the true calumbaplant; but, as just noticed, itsgeographical, as well as botanical, source is different. MedicmaI Properties.—Calumba root is a pure bitter tonicand stomachic, and from containing neither tannic or gallicacid, it may be combined with salts of iron and alkalies. Official Fig. o.—Tran-iverse section of thestem of Coscinitun /cnest7-atiiiii,Colebr., known as Caliiiitla IFood.(After Hanbury.) Extractum Calumb^B. Mistura Ferri Calumbae. 3. ANAMIRTA PANICULATA, Co/e/> Indicus. (Bentley and Trimens Medicinal Plants, vol. i. plate 14.)Habitat.—Eastern side of Indian Peninsula, Ceylon, and the Malayan Islands. Part Used a7id Naine.—Cocculus Indicus :-fruit. {Not Official.) -the dried 30 Coccnins Indiais. vriwiamijionr Cocculus Indicus. Coccitlus Indicus. Collection and Coniinerce.—lt is now imported fromBombay and Madras ; but formerly it was known under thenames of Levant Nut and Levant Shell, from being broughtto Europe by way of the Levant. General Characters.—Cocculus Indicus is reniform orreniform-ovoid, and usually less than half an i
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