ONION Squill

Tunicated bulbs are completely covered by broad scales which form concentric coatings. Examples Onion, Squill, Daffodil. 

Types of Cardiac Glycoside. Three groups of plants produce cardenolides the Digitalis species, growing in temperate climates the Strophanthus species, of tropical provenance and Scilla (sea onion or squill), a Mediterranean plant. 

BULBUS BULBI — Probably the Sea-Onion or Sea-Leek. Officinal Squill. 

Scills Syrupus (syrup of squills) From the sea onion (Urginea martima), used as an expectorant, diuretic, and emetic purgative. Its most common use was in the treatment of chronic bronchitis. Beasley gives more than thirty different prescriptions. 

Cell-content mucilage has been found in the leaves of Aloe, the rhizomes of Triticum, the bulb scales of Squill and Onion and in certain cells of many other Monocotyledons, especially those containing raphides. 

Squill, fcilla maritima, garlic, leek, onion, allium, afa-foetida, ferula afafoetida, gum ammoniac, benzoin, tar, pix llquida, balfam of Tolu. 

Common/vernacular ncanes Scilla, sea onion, sea squill, Mediterranean squill, red squill, white squill (U. maritima) Indian squill, white squill (U. indica). 

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