321. Anacardium.—Cashew nut.

Botanical name: 
Anacardium occidentale

321. ANACARDIUM.—CASHEW NUT. The fruit of Anacar'dium occidenta'le Linné. Habitat: North America. Kidney-shaped, about 25 mm. (1 in.) long, invested with a grayish-brown, finely punctate pericarp containing cardol (a reddish-yellow fixed oil, very active and poisonous). The seed is white and consists principally of a bland fixed oil. Vermifuge and escharotic.

A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.