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• ELECAMPANE (Med. Lat. Enula Campana)

ELECAMPANE (Med. See also:

• LAT

Lat. Enula Campana)  , a perennial composite plant, the Inula Helenium of botanists, which is See also:

• COMMON

common in many parts of .See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, and ranges throughout central and See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, and in See also:

• ASIA

Asia as far eastwards as the Himalayas . It is a rather rigid See also:

• HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb, the See also:

• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem of which attains a height of from 3 to 5 ft.; the leaves are large and toothed, the See also:

• LOWER

lower ones stalked, the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest embracing the stem; the See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers are yellow, 2 in. broad, and have many rays, each three-notched at the extremity . The See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root is thick, branching and mucilaginous, and has a warm, See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste and a camphoraceous odour . For medicinal purposes it should be procured from See also:

• PLANTS

plants not more than two or three years old . Besides See also:

• INULIN (C6H10O5)x, in chemistry, a starch-like carbohydrate, known also as alantin, menyanthin, dahlin, synanthrin and sinistrin. It occurs in many plants of the large genus Composilae, to which the elicampane (Lat. inula)

inulin, C12H26O10, a See also:

• BODY

body isomeric with See also:

• STARCH

starch, the root contains helenin, C6H8O, a stearoptene, which may be prepared in See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white acicular crystals, insoluble in See also:

• WATER

water, but freely soluble in See also:

• ALCOHOL

alcohol . When freed from the accompanying inula-camphor by repeated See also:

• CRYSTALLIZATION

crystallization from alcohol, helenin melts at to° C . By the ancients the root was employed both as a See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine and as a condiment, and in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England it was formerly in See also:

• GREAT

great repute as an aromatic tonic and stimulant of the secretory See also:

• ORGANS

organs . " The fresh roots of See also:

• ELECAMPANE (Med. Lat. Enula Campana)

elecampane preserved with See also:

• SUGAR

sugar, or made into a See also:

• SYRUP (0. Fr. ysserop, mod. sirop, Span. xarope, for axarope, Arab. al, the, and sharab, drink; cf. Sherbet " and " Shrub ")

syrup or conserve," are recommended by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• PARKINSON, JAMES (d. 1824)

Parkinson in his Theatrum Botanicum as " very effectual to warm a See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold and windy stomack, and the pricking and stitches therein or in the sides caused by the Spleene, and to helpe the cough, shortnesse of breath, and wheesing in the Lungs." As a See also:

• DRUG
• DRUG (from Fr. drogue, a word common in Romance languages, cf. Span. and Ital. droga; the origin of the word is obscure, but may possibly be connected with Dutch droog, dry)

drug, however, the root is now seldom resorted to except in veterinary practice, though it is undoubtedly possessed of antiseptic properties . In See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland it is used in the manufacture of See also:

• ABSINTHE

absinthe .