Latin, Gnaphalium conoideum, G. obtusifolium ;
English, Common everlasting. Indian posey, Indian tobacco, sweet-scented life-everlasting ;
French, Immortelle;
German, Immerschon.
A fragrant herb, with an erect, terete, woolly stem, 1 to 2 feet high,
with numerous, glabrous or pubescent terminal branches. The leaves
are alternate, sessile lanceolate, tapering at the base, slightly
amplexicaul, smooth above. The flowers appear from July to October
in numerous heads, clustered at the summit of penicled corymbose
branches ; they are ovate-conical before expansion, afterwards
obovate. The scales of the whitish involucres are ovate and oblong ;
the tubular florets are yellowish.
Found in :-
Indigenous to North America, from Canada and Wiseonsin to Florida and
Taxas ; common in old fields and woods.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
By Dr. Banks, N. A. J. of Hom. VII. 383. in 1858.
( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. IV. 456.)
The fresh plant.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Gnaphalium pol, moist magma containing solids | 100 gm
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Plant moisture 185 Cc. | = 285.
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Distilled water | 315 Cc.
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Strong alcohol | 537 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,
four parts distilled water,
five parts alcohol ; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
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