English, American aloe, Century plant, Maguey ;
French, Maguey ;
German, Agava ;
Urdu, Amrici Ganwar Gandal.
A perennial herb, 3 to 30 feet high, fibrous-rooted, acaulescent, with dentate, lanceolate leaves 3 to 6 feet long, very thick and fleshy, with hard spines along the margins and at points. Scape is branched, lofty and arborescent ; corolla tube contracted in the middle; pedicel as long as corolla. The pod is coriaceous and many-seeded. The seeds are flattened ; the flowers yellow.
Found in :-Florida, Mexico, Central and tropical America. Cultivated in south of Europe, for hedges.
Introduced in homoeopathic |
literature in 1866 by Dr. Hale, New Rem. 2nd ed. 52.
The fresh leaves.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Agava, moist magma containing solids | 100gm. |
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Plant moisture 800 Cc. | = 900 |
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Strong alcohol | 222 Cc.
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x to contain one part of tincture, six parts distilled water, three parts alcohol; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
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