General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . Hordeuin distichon. Hordeum vulgare. Hordeum hexastichon. When deprived of its integuments by a particular process, it con-stitutes Pearl barley—Hordeum perlatum; and when this is ground topowder, it forms patent barley. Ground barley is barley meal. Pearlbarley is officinal in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, as well asin the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain. Ripe barley-corns, according to Einhof, consist of per cent, ofhusk; of meal, and of water. The husks are said to be slightly a
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . Hordeuin distichon. Hordeum vulgare. Hordeum hexastichon. When deprived of its integuments by a particular process, it con-stitutes Pearl barley—Hordeum perlatum; and when this is ground topowder, it forms patent barley. Ground barley is barley meal. Pearlbarley is officinal in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, as well asin the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain. Ripe barley-corns, according to Einhof, consist of per cent, ofhusk; of meal, and of water. The husks are said to be slightly acrid and laxative : when deprivedof these, barley forms a nutritious aliment, and one that is easy of diges-tion. In the form of barley water, which is made by boiling it in water,it is much used as a demulcent drink in febrile and inflammatory dis- 384 SPECIAL DEMULCENTS. eases; especially in various inflammatory conditions of the mucousmembrane of the air tubes and alimentary canal. The Pharmacopoeiaof the United States contains a form for DECOCTUM HORDEI, DECOCTION OF BARLEY.
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