260 SKUNK-CABBAGE SLIPPERY ELM. 



SKUNK- CABBAGE. Symplocarpus foetidus, Nutt. 



N.O. Araceo-. 



Syn. Skunkweed, Meadow Cabbage, Polecatweed, 

 Dracontium fcetidum y Linn. 



Part used Root. 



Action Antispasmodic, diaphoretic, expectorant. 

 Enters into several of the Compound Herbal Powders 

 for fever. In small doses the powder may be mixed 

 with honey J ounce to 4 ounces honey and forms an 

 efficacious remedy for asthmatic and bronchial affections, 

 in doses of -J-i teaspoonful. 



Preparation Fluid extract : Dose, -1 drachm. 



Distinctive character Root obconical, truncate at 

 both ends, 3-4 inches long and about 2 inches in dia- 

 meter, with numerous long shrivelled roots. Often sold 

 in transverse slices about inch thick with a grey-brown 

 irregular margin, and the transverse section whitish 

 and starchy, with scattered yellowish wood bundles 

 showing near the circumference sections of the rootlets 

 at their origin. Taste, acrid, biting. Odour, disagreeable. 



SLIPPERY ELM. Ulmus fulva, Mich. 



N.O. Urticacca. 

 Syn. Red Elm, Moose Elm. 



Part used Bark. 



Action Diuretic, emollient, demulcent, pectoral; 

 one of the most valuable articles in the botanic practice, 

 and should be in every household. The finely powdered 

 bark makes an excellent gruel or food, and may be used 

 as such in all cases of weakness, inflammation of the 

 stomach, bronchitis, bleeding of the lungs, consump- 

 tion, &c. It has a wonderfully soothing and healing 

 action on all the parts it comes in contact with, and in 

 addition possesses as much nutrition as is contained in 



