CUCKOOPOINT CUDWEED. 89 



Oleoresin U.S. P. : Dose, 5-8 grains. Tincture B.P. : 

 Dose, -1 drachm. Lozenges U.S. P. 



Distinctive character The fruit resembles black 

 pepper in size and colour, but always tapers suddenly 

 below into a stalk, and the taste is not pungent but 

 warm, aromatic, and rather turpentiny. The seed has 

 a minute embryo in a small cavity at the apex. If 

 genuine, the crushed fruit turns crimson with strong 

 sulphuric acid. A spurious kind, with a nutmeg odour, 

 does not give this colour and is liable to produce 

 poisonous symptoms. 



CUCKOOPOINT. Arum maculatum, Linn. 



N.O. AY ace cc. 



Syn. Cuckoopint, Starchwort, Ramp, Lords-and- 

 Ladies. 



Part used Root. 



Action Diaphoretic, expectorant. It is a good 

 remedy internally and locally for sore throat. The 

 dose is 10-30 grains of the powdered root. Large doses 

 produce gastric inflammation, and fatal effects have 

 been recorded from its use. It was formerly official in 

 the Dublin Pharmacopoea. 



Distinctive character Root ovoid, about the size 

 of a hazel nut, showing annular scars left by the leaf 

 basis and scars of rootlets below. Internally white and 

 starchy. Taste, acrid, lost to a certain extent on keeping. 

 Odour, none. (See Wake Robin, American). 



CUDWEED. Gnaphalium obtuslfolium, Linn. 



N.O. Composite. 

 Syn. Cottonweed, Gnaphalium polycephalum, Michx. 



Part used Herb. 



Action Astringent. An excellent remedy for quinsy. 

 The infusion of i ounce to a pint of boiling water should 



