A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . ams (about 6-Jfluidounces) of the menstruum. Pack it tightly in a cylindrical perco-lator. Saturate with menstruum. Macerate forty-eight hours. Thenpercolate. Reserve four hundred cubic centimeters (13-j- fluidounces) of the firstpercolate. Continue the percolation until the drug is exhausted. Evaporate the second percolate to the consistence of honey, and thendissolve it in the first percolate. Add enough of the menstruum tomake the whole measure five hundred cubiccentimeters (or 17 fluidounces). Dose.—Two to ten cubic centimeters (|- to2J fluid
A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . ams (about 6-Jfluidounces) of the menstruum. Pack it tightly in a cylindrical perco-lator. Saturate with menstruum. Macerate forty-eight hours. Thenpercolate. Reserve four hundred cubic centimeters (13-j- fluidounces) of the firstpercolate. Continue the percolation until the drug is exhausted. Evaporate the second percolate to the consistence of honey, and thendissolve it in the first percolate. Add enough of the menstruum tomake the whole measure five hundred cubiccentimeters (or 17 fluidounces). Dose.—Two to ten cubic centimeters (|- to2J fluidrachms). Frankenia. Herba— Yerba Heuma. Origin.—Frankenia grandiflora (Franke- niacece). H ab itat.—California. Part used.—The whole plant. . r Figs. 259, 260.—Yerba Reu- DeSCriptlOH.—A branched Stem, about ma. a, natural size; &, en-fifteen centimeters (6 inches) long, with entire arge opposite leaves, tapering at the base, and small pink flowers. Odornone ; taste saline, with an astringent 506 A COMPANION TO THE Constituents.—It has not been analyzed. Uses.—It is recommended as a mild astringent, useful in diseasesof the mucous passages, as in catarrh, diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, gonorrhoea,etc. Dose.— to gram (10 to 20 grains), best given in the form offluid extract, made with diluted alcohol as a menstruum. Frasera. as eras Radix—American Columbo. Origin.—Frasera Walte-ri, Michaux (Gentianacece).Habitat.—United States,in the Alleghanies and theWest. Part used.—The —Splitlengthwise, about twenty-five millimeters (1 inch)thick, marked at the largeend by transverse rings,wrinkled longitudinally be-low ; brown externally, lightyellowish-brown within; barkthick ; odor reminding ofgentian ; taste sweetish, af-terward bitter. Constituents. — Con-tains, like gentian, the bitterglucoside, gentiopicrin, anda yellow crystallizable color-ing matter (gentisic acid ?).Medicinal Uses.—Bitter
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