Aster

Botanical name: 

Aster. Aster puniceus, L. (Fam. Compositae.)—The aromatic astringent rootlets of this indigenous plant have been employed as a stimulating diaphoretic in rheumatic and catarrhal affections.


The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.