Cup Plant

Botanical: Silphium perfoliatum
Family: N.O. Compositae

• Description
• Medicinal Action and Uses
• Dose
• Other Species

---Medicinal Action and Uses---Tonic, diaphoretic, alterative. Found useful in liver and spleen maladies, also in fevers, internal bruises, debility, ulcers, and a general alterative restorative. Gum is a stimulant and antispasmodic.

---Dose---4 oz. of powdered root in decoction. Powder itself in 20-grain doses.

---Other Species---
S. Ginniferum or Rosin weed is said to bestimulating and antispasmodic, and yields resinous secretions like mastic; this resin is diuretic and imparts to the urine an aromatic odour. Its root is a good expectorant in pulmonary and catarrhal diseases and the Compass plant is said to be emetic.

See ROSIN WEED.

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