Check this out too:
http://www.always-youthful.com/vitamin_power/black_cohosh.shtml
Says it was used in 19th century for all kinds of ailments.
Trish Fernandez
Pacific Legacy
Sierra/Central Division
3081 Alhambra Drive, Suite 208
Cameron Park, CA 95682
530.677.9713, ext. 24
-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of john
wicks
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 5:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Bottlle and Contents Information
Is it Cimicifuga? Try these sites:
www.munchkinnursery.com/newsletter/cimicifuga/
http://pss.uvm.edu/pss123/percimic.html
John Wicks
LOCKHART BILL wrote:
> I have run across an interesting drug store bottle with contents I
cannot
> identify. The bottle (from the Economical Drug Store in El Paso) is
> labeled CIMICIFECA (U. S. ?.) [the label is torn slightly obliterating
the
> final letter in parentheses]. Partial contents (a light powder) are
> intact. Can anyone identify the drug?
>
> The bottle is also embossed on the base with a manufacturer's mark I
> cannot find. It is H. W. & O. in an elongated hexagon. Has anyone
come
> across this manufacturer? I did not find it in Toulouse or any of the
usual sources.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Bill Lockhart
>
> Bill Lockhart
> New Mexico State University
> Alamogordo, NM
> (505) 439-3732