Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . doses, and is generally combined witheuonymin, iridin, and other vegetable extracts which stimulate the liver. Pinkroot.—This is a perennialplant of the southern parts of theUnited States, and is sometimescalled worm-grass. It is used to killintestinal worms and is especiallyvaluable in killing the bark is boiled in water withsenna and taken hot. Potash, or potassa, is the popularname for potassium carbonate. Hy-drated oxide of potassium is usuallykn
Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . doses, and is generally combined witheuonymin, iridin, and other vegetable extracts which stimulate the liver. Pinkroot.—This is a perennialplant of the southern parts of theUnited States, and is sometimescalled worm-grass. It is used to killintestinal worms and is especiallyvaluable in killing the bark is boiled in water withsenna and taken hot. Potash, or potassa, is the popularname for potassium carbonate. Hy-drated oxide of potassium is usuallyknown as caustic potash, and its so-lution as liquor potassae. Potash isobtained by burning wood, washingthe ashes with water, and evaporat-ing the solution to dryness. The re-mainder contains from sixty toeighty per cent, of carbonate of potas-sium, which is used to obtain mostof the other salts of potassium. Potassium is a metal which, on ac-count of its great affinity for othersubstances, is not found in a purestate in nature. All salts of potas-sium are supposed to have a de-Pinkroot pressing effect upon the nervous sys-. PINKROOT—POTASH—POTASSIUM 1199 tern and upon the hearts action, but in ordinary medicinal dosesthis action is so slight that it is not of practical importance. The solid tissues of plants and animals contain a considerableamount of potassium salts, but the fluids of the body, such as theblood, contain sodium salts, and require a constant supply ofthese for the maintenance of health. Hence the craving whichcattle display at times for common salt (sodium chloride), andth^ xiecessity for adding this to the human dietary. When potassium salts are taken in excess, they are rapidlyexcreted from the body, and thus by stimulating the functionsof the kidneys and bowels they increase the amount of urine andact as gentle purgatives. The solubility of potassium salts isgreater than that of sodium salts, and therefore it is supposedthat uric acid is excreted from t
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