SABAL IOI 



Dextrinum Album, N.F. (White dextrine should not yield more 

 than 0.5 per cent, of ash.) 



43. HORDEI FRUCTUS. BARLEY. The fruit of Hor'deum dis'tichum Linne", 

 a common cultivated cereal indigenous to Western Asia. About 15 mm. 

 (% in.) long, tapering at the ends, on one side trayersed by a longitudinal groove 

 along which the grayish-yellow palea or husk is coalesced with the smooth, 

 pale brown testa; underneath the testa is a layer of gluten surrounding the 

 central starchy parenchyma. Nutritive. 



43 a. HORDEUM, or pearl barley, is the fruit deprived of its brown integuments. 



43 b. MALTUM. MALT (U.S.P.IX). Prepared from the fruit of Hordeum 

 distichum Linne by soaking, and then allowing fermentation to proceed until 

 the young embryo is nearly the length of the fruit; the fruit is then dried in 

 the sun and afterward kiln-dried in order to kill the germ. The object of 

 this process is to develop the greatest possible amount of diastase, a peculiar 

 ferment which has the property of converting starch into sugar. Malt occurs 

 in yellowish or ambered-colored grains crisp when fractured with a whitish 

 interior. Its odor is agreeable and characteristic. The taste is sweetish 

 due to the conversion of some of the starch into maltose by the diastase 

 present. Malt should float in cold water. Malt is demulcent and nutrient, 

 given in the form of the extract. 



ACTION AND USES. Demulcent and nutritive given in conjunction with other 

 substances chiefly. 



PREPARATION. 



Extractum Malti (liquid, of honey-like consistence). 



CYPERACE^E. Sedge Family 



44. CAREX ARENARIA Linn. RED SEDGE. RADIX SARSAPARILL.S: GER- 

 MANICS. This sedge grows in the coast regions of Central and Northern 

 Europe, where its rhizome is used as an alterative like sarsaparilla. 



45. ADRUE. GUINEA RUSH. The rhizome of Cy'perus articula'tus Linn6, used 

 in its native country to check vomiting and as a tonic. Dose of fl'ext. : 30151 

 (2 mils). 



PALME). Palm Family 



Synopsis of Drugs from the Palmce 



A. Seed. D. Resin. 



Areca, 46. Draconis Resina, 49. 



B. Fruit. E. Fixed Oils. 



SABAL, 47. Oleum Palmae, 50. 



C. Root. Oleum Cocois, 51. 



Carnauba, 48. 



46. ARECA. ARECA NUT. BETEL NUT. The seed of an East Indian tree, 



Are'ca cat'echu Linne. Roundish-conical, about 25 mm. (i in.) long, flat- 

 tened at the base; externally deep brown, varied with f a wn-color,f giving it 

 a longitudinally -veined appearance; internally brownish-red with white 

 veins. It abounds in tannin, and contains three alkaloids upon which its 

 taeniafuge properties depend, arecoline, arecaine, and a trace of an undeter- 

 mined alkaloid. Mixed with the leaves of Piper betel it forms the "betel" 

 chewed so largely by the natives. It is strongly recommended as a taenia- 

 fuge and vermifuge. Dose: 2 to 3 dr. (8 to 12 Gm.). 



47. SABAL 



SABAL. (SAW PALMETTO) 



The dried ripe fruit of Sereno'a serrula'ta (R. and S.) Hooker filius. 

 Irregularly spherical to oblong-ovoid; 10 to 25 mm. long, 10 to 



