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CIMICIFUGA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CIMICIFUGA , in See also:

botany, a small genus of herbaceous See also:plants, of the natural See also:order See also:Ranunculaceae, which is widely distributed in the See also:north temperate See also:zone. C. foetida, bugbane, is used as a preventive against See also:vermin; and the See also:root of a North See also:American See also:species, C. racemosa, known as See also:black snake-root, as an emetic.

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