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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Flora cestrica : an attempt to enumerate and describe the flowering and filicoid plants of ... 
    Publication: West-Chester, Penn. : Printed for the author by S. Siegfried, 1837
    ... 1. p. 1268. Pers. Syn. l.p. 276. Tuberous Asclepias. Vulgo—Pleurisy-root. Butterfly-weed. Whole plant mostly very hairy, i?oo£ large, tuberous. S'em about 2 feet 1 i ±h, {•ene ...
  2. ... much as the stomach Avill bear. Family Apocynece—Asclepias Decumbens—Pleurisy Root, and Butterfly-weed. Description of the plant. Root tuberous, but more properly fusiform, perennial. Leaves scattered, sessile, ...
  3. ... much as the stomach will bear. Family Apocynecc—Asclepias Decumbens—Pleurisy Root, and But- terfly-weed. Description of the plant. Root tuberous, but more properly fusiform, perennial. Leaves scattered, sessile, ...
  4. ... The •lsclepia$eot€S Tribe, WO. 30. ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. Tuberous rooted Asclepias. Butterfly- Weed. Place.—North America. Quality.—Nauseous. Power.—Sudorific, anodyne. Use.—Pleurisy, colic, dysentery. BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. Natural Order. Asclepiadaceae—J. ...
  5. ... Asolepias Tuberosa, ( Pleurisy-root). DIAPHORETICS. 407 ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. Pleurisy-root, White-root, Swallowwort, dj-c. Description. � This species of asclepias has a large, tuberous, perennial root, which is branched, rough, and generally ...
  6. ... a remarkable effect in relieving the pain." By reference to Dr. Clerborne's cases, it will be seen that in one case it cured "pains in the limbs." 8 ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. (Pleurisy Root.) Analogues : Anlimonium crudum, Asclepias syriaca, Arnica, (?) Apocynum ...
  7. ... A. tomento'sa, A. Syriaca. A. tubero'sa, Asclepias (Ph. U. S.), Butterfly weed, Pleurisy root, Flux root, Wind root, Wind weed, White root, Orange swallow root, Silk- weed, Canada root, Orange apocynum, Tuberous-rooted swallow-wort; in Virginia and Carolinas root ...
  8. ... Asclepias tuberosa, U. S. Secondary. Pleurisy-root. Root ^of Asclepias ... is a large, tuberous root, brown externally and white internally. When fresh ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Elements of the materia medica and therapeutics 
    Publication: Charleston, S.C. : Burges & James, printers and publishers, 1843
    ... much as the stomach will bear. Family Apocynece—Asclepias Decumbens or ... Root—tuberous and perennial. Leaves—scattered, sessile, on short foot ...
  10. ... is indicated. Dose, one to two fl. ounces. ASCLEPIAS. Sex. Syst. Pentand. ... large, and irregularly tuberous; the taste of it is bitter, nauseous, and ...
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