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from kidneys and bladder. Valuable in treatment of 

 incontinence of urine in children and aged persons. 

 Also in leucorrhoea, diarrhoea, and dysentery. The 

 infusion of i ounce to a pint of boiling water is taken in 

 wineglassful doses. Externally may also be used as an 

 injection. 



Preparation Fluid extract: Dose, -1 drachm. 



Distinctive character The root bark occurs in 

 small quilled pieces about J inch in diameter and 2 

 inches or more long, of a dirty brown colour externally, 

 with scattered transversely oval red-brown lenticels. 

 Transverse fracture short, with radiate rows of minute, 

 dark, flattened oil cells. Taste, mucilaginous. Odour, 

 none. 



SUMBUL. Ferula Sumbul, Hook f. 



N.O. Umbelltftra. 

 Syn. Musk Root. 



Part used Root. 



Action Nerve stimulant, antispasmodic, tonic. Has 

 been found very useful in nervous diseases, in low typhus 

 fevers, asthma, bronchitis, &c. Also employed in amenor- 

 rhcea, hysteria, and other allied female disorders. 



Preparations Fluid extract : Dose, 10-60 drops. 

 Solid extract U.S.P. : Dose, 4 grains. Tincture B.P. : 

 Dose, ^-i drachm. 



Distinctive character The root occurs in commerce 

 in transverse slices, about 1-2 inches, rarely up to 5 

 inches in diameter, and i inch or more thick, the bristling 

 crown of the root and the tapering lower parts of the 

 root also occur, externally covered with a thin, papery, 

 dark grey-brown bark. The transverse section is dirty 

 brown and resinous, marbled with white. The white 

 part is seen to consist of a spongy, fibrous, mealy tissue ; 

 Taste, bitter and aromatic. Odour, musky. 



