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Cocklebur | | Name : | Cocklebur | | Botanical : | Xanthium spinosum | | Synonyms : | Spiny Clot Burr. | | Family : | Annuals in group of Ambroisecae of the Compositae | | Parts Used : | The whole plant. | | Habitat : | South Europe and naturalized in America near sea-coast, Central Asia northwards to the Baltic and many other parts of the globe. | | Description : | Xanthic flowers belong to a type which are yellow in colour and can become white or red but never blue. These plants are spread as weeds or cultivated over a great part of the world. Stem annual, from 1 to 3 feet high, much branched and many spined; these are straw-coloured and divided about 1/4 inch from their base into three slender branches, diverging and sharp. Leaves lanceolate, acute, tapering to short leaf-stalks with two lobes at base; underside is covered with a thick white down. Flowers small, monoecious, those at apex sterile, while the fertile ones are at the base of the branchlets. Fruit, a rough burr with a short beak at the apex and covered densely with hooked prickles. | | 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. |
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