. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal 108 THE COMPLETE Jalap. first hastate, succeeding ones cordate, acuminate, and mucronate. Tlie calyx has no bracts; corolla funnel-shaped, purple, and long. Fruit a capsule. History.—This plant grows in Mexico, at an elevation of nearly six thousand feet above the level of the sea, near Chicanquiaco and Xalapa, from which it is exported, and from which l
. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal 108 THE COMPLETE Jalap. first hastate, succeeding ones cordate, acuminate, and mucronate. Tlie calyx has no bracts; corolla funnel-shaped, purple, and long. Fruit a capsule. History.—This plant grows in Mexico, at an elevation of nearly six thousand feet above the level of the sea, near Chicanquiaco and Xalapa, from which it is exported, and from which last-named place it also receives its name. It is generally imported in bags, containing one or two hundred pounds. The worm-eaten root is the most energetic, aa the active part is untouched by them. It is soluble in water and alcohol. Properties and Uses.—Jalap is irritant and cathartic, operating energetically, and produces liquid stools. It is chiefly em- ployed when it is desired to produce an energetic influence on the bowels, or to obtain large evacuations. In intestinal in- flammations it should not be used. Dose.—Powder, ten grains. JAMESTOWN WEED (Datura Stramonium). Common Names. Thorn-Apple, Stinkweed., Apple-peru, etc. Medicinal Parts. The leaves and seeds. Description.—This plant is a bushy, smooth, fetid, annual plant, two or three feet in height, and in rich soil even more. The root is rather large, of a whitish color, giving off many fibres. The stem is much branched, forked, spreading, leafy, of a yellowish-green color. The leaves are large and smooth, from the forks of the stem, and are uneven at the base. The flowers are about three inches long, erect, large, and white. The fruit is a large, dry, prickly capsule, with four valves and numerous black reniform seeds. There is the Datura Tatula, or pui-ple Stramonium, which differs from the above in having a deep purple stem, etc. History.—Stramonium is a well-known poisonous weed, growing upon waste gro
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