Fucus

{fu’-kus) [(pwoc, seaweed], A genus of marine algae, the rock-weeds. F. vesiculosus, bladder-wrack, sea-wrack. It is employed in goiter and glandular enlargements, and in obesity, under the name of antifat. Dose of the solid extract, gr. x (0.65); of the fluid extract, f 3 j-ij (4.0-8.0). Unof. 286