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AGAVE AMERICANA. (American Aloe.)
This is an evergreen succulent plant, sometimes called the century, and by the natives of Mexico, the Maguey.
It is found growing in Florida, Mexico, and other parts of tropical America.
It hears a strong resemblance to the plants of the genus Aloe, with which it is sometimes confounded.
The root and leaves, when cut, furnish a saccharine juice, which may be converted into syrup and sugar by evaporation, and into a vinous liquor by fermentation.
The native of Mexico manufacture from it their favorite drink-the Pulque-which is capable of causing considerable intoxication.
The juice of the Maguey contains a large amount of vegetable and saccharine matter, and is of itself sufficiently nutritious to sustain a person for several days.
It delights in a dry sandy soil, and can be cultivated where nothing but the cactus will grow.
The cortical portion near the root may be eaten, when cooked by roasting.
The white internal portion is the edible part.
Dr. Perrin has seen muleteers use it for food, and they seem to be very food of it.
He was informed upon good authority that several tribes of Indians in New Mexico make use of it in the same manner.
The juice, when evaporated to the consistence of a soft extract, forms a lather with water, and is sometimes employed as a substitute for soap.
The fresh juice is said to be diuretic, laxative and emmenagogue.
So far, only the juice of the roasted leaves has been used as a remedial, agent.
The tincture of a fresh root prepared from it, may possess valuable medicinal qualities.
The same virtues may exist in the leaves, as it is well known that cooking deprives some plants and roots of their poisonous qualities.
Tincture made by expression and maceration, or by percolation from the fresh leaves and the root.
Lime juice, Lemon juice, Citric acid, Kali chloratum, Natrum muriaticum.
@ Army scurvy, with pale and dejected countenance.
@ Gums swollen, and bleeding, legs covered with dark, purple blotches, swollen, painful, and of stony hardness; pulse small and feeble; appetite poor; bowels constipated.
@ Eleven cases rapidly improved under the use of the Maguey after lime juice and lemon juice had failed.
The fermented juice intoxicates.
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