ASARUM

(Lat.), n. n. _ A?s(a°s)'a>-ru>m(rutm). Gr., écap or, from a priv., and cecpé, a band, because not used in making garlands. Fr., asaret.’ Ger., Haselwurz. 1. Wild ginfior; a genus of perennial herbs ‘of the Aristo loch i aceæ, established by Tournefort. It has a creeping rhizome; solitary flowers having a 3-cleft campanulate calyx; 12 stamens, epigynous, with the anthers adnate to the middle or top of the filaments; and a short style with a 6-rayed stigma. The fruit is a fleshy 6-celled capsule surmounted by the remains of the calyx. [B, 19. 34.] 2 In the U.S. Ph., the root of A. can a dense, [A, 247.] 3. In the Fr. Cod., the A. europœum. {B.]—Alcoolé d’opium et d’a. composé (Fr.). Syn.: goutles anodynes anglaises. A preparation made by digesting for 20 days iftering a mixture of 30 parts each of the root of A. europæim and sa afras, 15 of alo ood, 12 of opium, 4 of ammonium carbonate, and 500 of alcohol; used in epilepsy and hysteria. (L, 77.] —A. arifolium [Michaux]. A species indigenous to the southeastern United States, distinguished by its broadly hastate solitary leaves, which are puberulent along the veins, and by its inflated - urceolate purlish-brown calyx, trilobate at its summit. The slender whitish rhizome has a faint taste of ginger, and is sometimes substituted for serpent aria, It has the medicinal properties of A. europœum. (B. 34, 180.]— A.-bitter. See AsARIN. — A. camphor. Fr, camphre d'a. See ASARONE. — A. can a dense [Linnæus]. Fr., asaret du Canada, Ger., can a disc he Haselwurz, Syn. A, villosnm (M chaux] (seu carol in i a nun {| ae seu ) lati folium [Salisbury]).. Can- THE ASARUM CAN A DENSE. [A, 827.] ada ‘snakeroot, ™ ". wild ginger; a species distinguished by its pair of large, radical, reniform leaves, with the solitary purplish flower lying between them and close to the ground. Its rhizome is used in domestic medicine, and contains a volatile oil made up of asarene, asarol, O. no; 0%, not; O%, whole; Th, thin; Th?, the; U, like 00 in too; U?, blue; U%, lull; U4, full; US, urn; US, like ü (German). and ethereal derivatives of the latter, also a neutral body (asarin) of the composition C,,H,402, resin, starch, mucilage, sugar, and a coloring matter (asain). (B, 33, 34.)—A. carolinianum’ [Walter]. See A. can a dense.—A. europæum [Linnæus]. Fr., cabaret [Fr. Cod.], rondelle, oreille d’ homme, oreillette, nard sauvage. Ger., wilde Narde, gemeine Haselwurz, It., asaro, nardo silvatico, Syn.: asarum [Fr. Cod.], Nardus montana (seu rustic a, seu silvestris), asarabacca, A European species resembling A. can a dense in appearance and botanical character. — It contains a volatile oil, a He er le (asarin), asarone, and asarite. The rhizome is round, of about the thickne of a quill, branching, and beset with rootlets; it has a sharply aromatic odor like that of pores and valerian, and a nauseous, bitter, and acrid taste. The leaves and rhizome, radix (et herb a) asari (seu azari, seu nard i silvestris, seu nard i rustic an i, seu cabaretæ, seu vulgaginis, seu sanguinis Martis), were formerly much employed before ipecac was known as an emetic, diuretic, and diaphoretic, and in the form of a dry powder as à sternutatory. After the introduction of ipecac oy were used chiefly in veterinary practice. [A, 247; B, 19, 180.] —A, grandiflorum (Klotsch]. See A. arifolium.—A. Hookeri. A species resembling A. can a dense, of which it is sometimes re- - garded as a variety, growing on the Pacific coast of North America, [B, 214.];—:\. luä…clsus [Linneeus]. See CyriNus hypo cyst is.—A. lati folium (Salisbury]. See A. can a dense.—A. of ficin ale. See A, europœum—A. oil. Lat., oleum asari. A volatile oil obtained in small quantity from the root of A. europœum by distillation; a yellowish, viscid liquid, smelling like valerian oil, of a sharp, burning taste. sparingly soluble in water, but readily solnble in alcohol, in ether, and in fixed and volatile oils, Its exact composition is unknown, but the following for mule have been deduced: C,H,O and C,pH,504. [B, … 182.] See also À. can a dense —A Sieboldil [Miquel]. À Species growing in Japan, where it is called to-sai-shin, having a ler, aromatic rhizome of a pungent, irritating after-taste. [A, 247.)—A. udne. i name for the 4. europeum. i » 259.]-A. villosum [Michaux]. See A. can a dense.—A. virginianum, A. virginicuim [Willdenow]. Black snake-weed; a low acaulescent species, growing in the mountainous regions of the southeastern United States, and said also to occur in China and Japan; it resembles A. can a dense. but differs in having solitary, glabrous, coriaceous, orbicular-ovate, deeply cordate leaves, and a short sub campanulate dark-purpled calyx. The root is sometimes substituted for that of Aristolochia serpent aria, [B, 34, 180; L.J—A. vnigare, A. vulgare rotund i folium [Morison]. See A. europœum.—E entia asarl. See Tinctura asari—Extractum asari. Fr., extrait d'asaret. An alcoholic solid extract of the root of A. europœum, formerly official. [L 85.|—Folia asari, Herba asari. The leaves of A. euro- œum. [B,180; L,120.|—Olenm asari. See A. oil.—Pondre. Fr. Cod.] (Fr.), Pulvis asari [Fr. Cod.]. A preparation made by powdering the recently dried leaves of A. europœum and pa ing the powder through a sieve of 80 meshes to the inch (of 27 mm.). _ [B.] —Pulvis asari compos it us (seu errhinus, seu sternutator i us). Compound powder of asarabacca. conte neg arts of the leaves of A. europeum and 1 part of lavender, slightly different proportions being given in several old pharmacopceias; used as an errhine in headache and ophthalmia, „ 132.1- adix asarl. The rhizome of A. europœum. [B, 180.]—Tinctura asari (Fr. Cod., 1837]. Fr., teinture d'asaret. A tincture made by macerating 1 part of the leaves of A. europeum in 4 parts of alcohol for 15 days, and filtering. {L, 85.]