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VIBURNUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 17 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VIBURNUM , in See also:

medicine, the dried bark of the See also:black haw or Viburnum prunifolium, grown in See also:India and See also:North See also:America. The black haw contains viburnin and valerianic, tannic, gallic, citric and malic acids. The See also:British Pharmacopoeial preparation is the Extractum Viburni Prunifolii liquidum; the See also:United States preparation is the fluid See also:extract prepared from the Viburnum opulus. The physiological See also:action of viburnum is to See also:lower the See also:blood pressure. In overdose it depresses the motor functions of the See also:spinal See also:cord and so produces loss of reflex and See also:paralysis. Therapeutically the See also:drug is used as an See also:anti-spasmodic in dysmenorrhoea and in menorrhagia.

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