[11] Rattlesnake root -- Botanical, _Polygala senega_ -- being an active stimulant, will counteract the bite of this most poisonous of reptiles. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
By the above-mentioned statute, gum senega, or gum arabic, being among the enumerated dying drugs, might be imported duty free. ❋ Unknown (1909)
III. therefore, chap. 37. the exportation of gum senega from his majestys dominions in Africa was confined to Great Britain, and was subjected to all the same restrictions, regulations, forfeitures, and penalties, as that of the enumerated commodities of the British colonies in America and the West Indies. ❋ Unknown (1909)
II. therefore, gum senega was allowed to be imported (contrary to the general dispositions of the act of navigation), from any part of Europe. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Dr.A. E. Ross speaks highly of its use as an expectorant, ranking it in this respect with senega; he found it especially useful in the bronchitis of children. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)
In a few cases which have come under my observation, I have found this and the senega snakeroot (Polygala senega) convenient and useful prescriptions in this disease; the latter, with tartar emetic solution, to promote expectoration; and the former, with flaxseed tea, as a stimulant diaphoretic, combining them with spirits of turpentine when it has assumed the typhoid form. ❋ Unknown (1863)
Flora, says it is possessed of active properties; the root having a sweet, pungent, aromatic taste, similar to that of the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumb.); he thinks it milder than the P. senega, and, therefore, adapted to cases in which that is inapplicable. ❋ Unknown (1863)
This plant, called "button-snakeroot" by some, is reported to be a stimulant, diuretic, and expectorant; also possessing powers as an anodyne; it is consequently given as a remedy in colic, the tincture or the decoction of the root being employed -- said to resemble senega snakeroot, and to excite a flow of saliva when chewed. ❋ Unknown (1863)
Bigelow says the decoction is sudorific and expectorant, and he considers it a good substitute for senega. ❋ Unknown (1863)
I have observed the good effects of both this and the senega snakeroot (Polygala senega) in this affection. ❋ Unknown (1863)
For example, the leaf of the Rattlesnake-root (_Polygala senega_) is the most efficacious remedy against the bite of this dreadful animal. ❋ Various (1852)
Though I knew it not then, it was the famed "snake-root" (_Polygala senega_). ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Other native American herbs that serve as expectorants include yerba santa (Eriodictyon californica), grindelia grandiflora, balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera and P.candicans), polygala senega, sundew (Drosera rotundiflora), lobelia seed or leaf tincture (L. inflata), boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) and pleurisy root (Asclepias tuberosa). ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)
Aristolochia anguicida, Cerbera thevetia, Ophoiorhiza mungos, Polygala senega, Nicotiana tabacum, (One of the remedies most used in Spanish ❋ Unknown (1851)
