No. 4r. 



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Qualities — The plant has hardly any smell : the 

 taste is bitter^ and a little pungent or even acrid. It 

 has not been analyzed ; but. contains amarine, extrac- 

 tive and an oil. 



PROPERTIES— Tonic, febrifuge, errhine. CIay« 



ton and Schoepf mention its use in intermittents j but 

 it is not extensively employed as yet in fevers : while 

 it is known and employed all over the country as a 

 valuable Errhine. The whole plant reduced to pow- 

 der act as such ; but the flowers and particularly the 

 central florets are powerful sternutatory. A very 

 small pinch of their powder produces a lasting sneez- 

 in"-. The late B. Barton has eminently extolled it, 



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as a substitute to more acrid Errhines, either alone 

 or united to other ingredients. It may be used in 

 diseases of the head, deafness, anavrosis, head-ache. 



heniicrania, rheumatism or congestions in the head 



and jaws, &c. Th^ shocks of sneezing are often use- 

 ful in those cases, when other remedies can hardly 

 avail. This plant has probably many other proper- 

 ties, little known as yet, and deserving investigation. 

 Substitutes— As a tonic Chelone glitbra, and 

 other herbaceous tonics. As an errhine, ^sarnm 

 Canadense, Sanguiiiaria canadensis, Mijrica ceri- 

 fera, Tobacco and 'Cephalic Snuffs. Besides the 

 Helenium quadrideniatum of Louisiana and Florida, 

 which will be known by its lower leaves pinnatifid, 

 upper entire, and the florets quadrifid or four cleft. 



