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CIMICIFUGA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CIMICIFUGA  , in

botany, a small genus of herbaceous
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plants, of the natural order
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Ranunculaceae, which is widely distributed in the north temperate zone . C. foetida, bugbane, is used as a preventive against vermin; and the root of a North
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American
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species, C. racemosa, known as black snake-root, as an emetic .

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