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