BITTER APPLE BITTER ROOT. 2Q 



Preparations Powdered root : Dose, - drachm in 

 water. Fluid extract: Dose, $-1 drachm. 



Distinctive character About 2 inches long and 

 | inch broad, twice bent as in the letter S, red-brown, 

 depressed or channelled on the upper surface and 

 transversely striated, convex, and with depressed root 

 scars below, fracture short, light reddish brown, bark 

 thick, ring of woody wedges small, enclosing a pith 

 equal in thickness to the bark. Taste, astringent. 

 Odour, none. 



BITTER APPLE. Citrullus Colocynthis, Schrad. 



N.O. Ciicurbitacea. 

 Syn. Colocynth Pulp, Bitter Cucumber. 



Part used Peeled fruit. 



Action Cathartic, irritant, drastic purgative. Seldom 

 used alone, mostly in conjunction with other laxatives 

 and anodynes, such as Aloes, Henbane, &c. Useful in 

 constipation, and in painful menstrual complaints, also 

 in dropsy. As a rule it is taken in pill form. 



Preparations Fluid extract : Dose, 5-10 drops. 

 Comp. extract B.P. : Dose, 2-8 grains. Powdered 

 extract U.S. P. : Dose, grain. Solid extract : Dose, 

 2-5 grains. Colocynthin : Dose, ^-i grain. 



Distinctive character Pulp yellowish white, spongy, 

 very bitter, sometimes containing dark-greeenish oval 

 flattened seeds, or immature whitish ones. 



BITTER ROOT. 



Apocynum androsasmifoJium, Linn. 



N.O. Asclepiadacete. 

 Syn. Dogsbane, Milkweed. 



Part used Root. 



Action Emetic, cathartic, tonic, and diuretic. 

 Being a cardiac stimulant it is of great value in cardiac 



