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COMPOSITE 



carbons with the angelic, valerianic, and tiglinic esters of butyl and amyl. 

 Anthemis also contains a brown, bitter extractive, probably a glucoside. 

 Ash, about 6 per cent. 



ACTION AND USES. Stimulant and tonic, in enfeebled digestion during convales- 

 cence; also carminative, and in large doses emetic. Dose: 15 to 60 gr. (i to 

 4 Gm.), in infusion. 



FIG. 255. Anthemis nobilis Plant and dissected flowers. 



601. SANTONICA. SANTONICA, U.S.P. VIII 



LEVANT WORMSEED 

 The dried unexpanded flower-heads of Artemisia pauciflo'ra Weber. 



BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS. A low, shrubby, tomentose, aromatic plant. 

 Leaves downy, pinnatifid; flower-heads drooping, in dense thrysoid panicles. 



SOURCE. Artemisia pauciflora grows on the desert plains or steppes of several 

 parts of Russia, especially in the districts near the lower course of the Volga 

 and Don Rivers. It is quite abundant in Persia and Turkestan, where it is 

 known as Damanah. This Asiatic drug does not differ materially from the 

 Russian, except that it is slightly shaggy and mixed with tomentose stalks. 

 Of late years most of the wormseed of commerce has come from the steppes 

 of the northern part of Turkestan, whence it finds its way to Moscow and 

 Western Europe. 





