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certain and valuable remedy. It is generally given in 

 combination with other medicines. 



Preparations Powdered root: Dose, 6-10 grains. 

 Solid extract : Dose, 2-5 grains. Fluid extract : Dose, 

 10-30 drops. Tincture : Dose, \-i drachms. Stillingin : 

 Dose, 1-3 grains. 



Distinctive character In pieces several inches in 

 length and from -2 inches thick, tapering, greyish 

 brown, wrinkled longitudinally. Bark thick and, as 

 well as the central wood, pinkish white, with numerous 

 minute resin cells, tough and finely fibrous, and often 

 starchy. Taste, bitter and acrid and pungent. Odour, 

 characteristic and unpleasant; 



QUINCE. Pyrus Cydonla, Linn. 



N.O. Rosacea. 

 Syn. Quince seed, Cydonia vulgaris, Pers. 



Part used Seeds. 



Action Mucilaginous, demulcent. It is of use in 

 gonorrhoea, dysentery, and diarrhoea ; externally also, in 

 eye diseases, as a soothing lotion. 



Distinctive character The seeds or pips are usually 

 glued together in a double row of three to fourteen by 

 the dried mucilage, contained in the outer seed coats. 

 In appearance, size, and taste they resemble apple pips, 

 but have become angular by mutual pressure. 



RAGWORT. Seneclo Jacobasa, Linn. 



N.O. Composite. 



Syn. Stinking Nanny, St. James' Wort, Stagger- 

 wort, Ragweed, Dog Standard. 



Part used Herb. 



Action Diaphoretic, detergent. Useful in coughs, 

 colds, influenza, and catarrh of mucous membranes 



