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Qualities — The strong and lasting smell of the 

 whole plant, Is owing to an "essential oil, very pene- 

 trating or pungent, and in which resides the medical 

 property. It is diffused throughout the plant, parti- 

 tfularly in the globular dots of the leaves, and the 

 seeds. The taste is bitter, acrid and aromatic. 



PROPERTIES— A powerful vermifuge used both 

 in America and Europe ; found equal lo the officinal 

 wormseed, which is the Artemisia Sanlolina^ a very 

 different plant, native of Syria and Africa. It expels 



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speedily, the Lumbrlcs and other worms of the in- 

 testiaes- It must be given in repeated small doses, 

 and the most palatable form: the seeds and their es- 

 sential oil are the most eiKeacious, eight or ten drops 

 of the oil, mixed with sugar are a common dose for a 

 ehild, or a table spoonful morning and night fasting, 

 of an electuary mode of the pulverized seeds with 



^lonTn milk, of the leaves, (or even their juice,) are 



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also used. Children often dislike the strons: smell of 

 this medicine, and it must be disguised by orange peel 

 or sweet substances. The seeds and oil are now kept 

 in the pharmacies; but the last is often adulterated 

 Avith oil of Botrys or of Turpentine; which lessen its 

 power; it may then be known by a less pungent 



smell. 



This plant has only been employed against worms, 

 as yet, but it possesses probably all the properties of 

 the Ch. Botrys and amb osicide^j which are pecto- 

 ral, resolvent, carminative and emcnagogue: useful ii> 

 asthma, suppressed menstrations, &c. 



SUBSTITUTES — Sniizelia or Pinkroot — Lobelia 



