Many extant brands from the era live on today in brands such as Luden's cough drops, Lydia E . Pinkham's vegetable compound for women, Fletcher's Castoria and even Angostura bitters, which was once marketed as a stomachic.
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Arabs of the Levant traditionally use roasted tubers, while they are still hot, or hot ashes from burned tubers, to treat wounds, bruises, carbuncles, etc . Western and Islamic herbalists including Dioscorides, Galen, Charles Alston have described medical uses as stomachic, emmenagogue, and deobstruent, and in emollient plasters.
