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Physician's Materia Medica on Jalap
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The tuber of EXOGONIUM PURGA. (Wend.) Lindl. Hydragogne cathartic, used especially in dropsy in combination with potassium bitartrate.1
The tuber of EXOGONIUM PURGA. (Wend.) Lindl. Hydragogne cathartic, used especially in dropsy in combination with potassium bitartrate.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.