Cocklebur

Botanical: Xanthium spinosum (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Annuals in group of Ambroisecae of the Compositae

• Description
• Medicinal Action and Uses
• Other Species

---Medicinal Action and Uses---A valuable and sure specific in the treatment of hydrophobia. An active styptic, local and general. Fluid extract, 1 to 2 drachms. 10 grains of the powdered plant, four times daily.

---Other Species---Xanthium Strumarium, a coarse erect annual, 1 to 2 feet high, leaves on long stalks, large broadly heart-shaped, coarsely toothed or angular on both sides. Flower heads, greenish yellow, terminal clusters on short racemes, upper ones male, lower female, forming when in fruit ovoid burrs covered with hooked prickles. The short stout conical beaks erect or curved inwards. It is not a British plant, though is sometimes found there and in Ireland.

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