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  1. NLM Digital Collections - C.E. Hobb's botanical hand-book of common local, English, botanical and pharmacopoeial names .... 
    Publication: Boston : Printed by C.C. Roberts, 1876
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101287229
    ... Paper mulberry, Bk. made into paper and cloth. Mucuna pruriens, Cowhage, see Dolichos pruriens. “ prurita,* East India cowhage, “ “ prurita. ... elder or sunflower, Sambucus and Helianthus. Mucuna, U.S. Cowhage, Mucuna pruriens. Muscus, Lichen, see Lichen. Myristica, U.S. Nutmeg, Myristica ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Emergency food plants and poisonous plants on the islands of the Pacific 
    Publication: Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1943
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/05710600R
    ... 128 107. Tree nettle (Laportea) 24 129 108. Cowhage (Mucuna pruriens); (Mucuna bipli- cata), (Mucuna cyanosperma) 24 130 109. ... than others. Figure 106.—Tree nettle (Laportea). e. Cowhage (Mucuna pruriens; M. biplicata; M. cyano- spervia).—These vines occur ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The essentials of materia medica and therapeutics 
    Publication: New York : Wood, 1865
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101517336
    ... U. S. P.] The hairs of the fruit of Mucuna pruriens, Cowhage plant; Lin. Syst., Diadelphia decandria: growing in the ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The essentials of materia medica and therapeutics 
    Publication: New York : Wood, 1865
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61630490R
    ... U. S. P.] The hairs of the fruit of Mucuna pruriens, Cowhage plant; Lin. Syst., Diadelphia decandria: growing in the ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of medical science : containing a concise account of the various subjects and ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1844
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101515227
    ... Dol'ichos Pru'riens, Dol'ichos, Slizolo'bium, Mucuna pruriens, Cowhage, Cowitch, Adsaria Pala. Order, Leguminosae. (F.) Pois agratter. The stiff hairs of the Dolichos Pods, called Dol- ichos Pubes, D. prurien'tis ... go Sil'iquse hirsu'tse, Mucuna, (Ph. U. S.,) are the parts used in medicine. ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Encyclopedia of health and home: a domestic guide to health, wealth and happiness : thorough .... 
    Publication: New York : I.N. Reed & Co., 1880
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63611140RX2
    ... common cotton of commerce. Cotton-Plant. COWHAGE. 267 COWHAGE (Mucuna Pruriens). Part used—The hairs of the pods and ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Materia medica and therapeutics : with ample illustrations of practice in all the departments ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1857
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63750550R
    ... when we treat of individual diuretics. Dolichos Pruriens. Mucuna Pruriens. Cowhage, or Cowitch.—This is the down or hair ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - An epitome of the American eclectic practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, diseases of ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : John Gladding, 1859
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64230010R
    ... in typhus fever. Dose, one or two grains. Mucuna Pruriens, (Cowhage.) Used for worms. Dose, twenty or thirty grains. ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - An epitome of the American eclectic practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, diseases of ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Paine, 1863
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64230020R
    ... in typhus fever. Dose, one or two grains. Mucuna Pruriens, (Cowhage.) Used for worms. Dose, twenty or thirty grains. ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The American eclectic dispensatory 
    Publication: Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach, & Keys, 1854
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61660590R
    ... in doses of from fifteen to thirty grains. MUCUNA PRURIENS. Cowhage. Nat. Ord.—Fabaceaa. Sex. Syst.—Diadelphia Decandria. THE ...
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