Eriodictyon

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 15

(er-e-o-dik'-te-on). Yerba Santa or Mountain - balm. The leaves of E. glutinosum, a shrub of California, an excellent expectorant, and valuable as an excipient for quinin, the taste of which it largely conceals. It is useful in bronchial affections. E., Ext. Fid. Dose n. E., Ext. Dose gr. ij-x. E. to men to sum and E. an gust i folium have the same uses. The latter are unofficial.