English, Bayberry, Candle berry, myrtle bayberry tree, Sweet gale, Wax berry, Wax myrtle ;
French, Arbre a suif ;
German, Wachsbaum.
An ornamental, evergreen shrub, with acrid astringent root. The
stem is 3 to 8 feet high with numerous branches, especially at the
summit, the twigs pubescent. The leaves are alternate, oblong,
lanceolate, narrowed at the base, sub-serrate at the apex, shining
and resinous, dotted on both sides, and very fragrant. The apetalous
flowers appear in May and June, The sterile in oblong, the fertile in
ovoid catkins, from axillary, scaly buds. The scales of the male
catkins are acute, erect, ½ to ¾ inch, sessile along last year’s
branches ; the female are on a different shrub, half the size of
the male. The fruit consists of globular, blackish, one-sided nuts
about the size of a pea, with a white, waxy outer covering.
Found in :-
North America along the Atlantic coast from Florida northward,
rare in the interior ; found in sandy soil, on and near the seashore,
also on lake Erie. In the south it is a small evergreen tree, in
Delaware and New Jersey a tall semi-deciduous shrub, in the north
dwarfed and deciduous.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
In 1864. ( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. VI. 432.)
The fresh bark of the root.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Myrica, moist magma containing solids | 100 gm
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Plant moisture 233 Cc. | = 333
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Strong alcohol | 797 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,
two parts distilled water,
seven parts alcohol ; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
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