Gaultheria procumbens

Gaultheria procumbens L. Engl.: eastern teaberry, wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, deerberry, mountain tea, teaberry. Deu.: Niederliegende Rebhuhnbeere, Wintergrün, Niederliegende Scheinbeere. Suom.: lamosalali. Sven.: tuvvaktelbär, amerikansk vaktelbär, östamerikanskt vaktelbär. Fran.: gaulthérie. Bot. syn.: Gaultheria repens Raf.

Gleanings in Materia Medica, cont'd.

Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1883. Analysis of Cinchona leaves, Oil of Gaultheria, Blue volatile oils, Composition of Cacao Butter, Free Acids in Vegetable Fats, Convallaria majalis.

Photo: Gaultheria procumbens 4.

Photo: Gaultheria procumbens 4. Plants in berry. Lysekils örtagård, Sweden. Planted. 2007-07-13.

Acids.

Classic texts: Petersen 1905.

Oil of Wintergreen

Classic texts: Journals: Ellingwood 1908.

Oil of Gaultheria.

Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1885.

Oleum Gaultheriae.

Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1884.

Varieties.

Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1881. How milk should be taken, Forest culture, Wintergreen as an antiseptic, Oil of Cajeput in Eczema, Chaulmoogra and Gurjun oil in leprosy, Kava kava in gonorrhoea, Eucalyptus in chronic diseases of the stomach, Poultice of Jaborandi, Papain for Taenia, Apocynum cannabinum in Anasarca, Dessicated ox blood and hemoglobin, Sugar of milk as a laxative, Action of conine.