Squill

Squill possesses expectorant, cathartic, emetic, cardioactive, and diuretic properties. Traditionally, it has been used for chronic bronchitis, asthma with bronchitis, whooping cough, and specifically for chronic bronchitis with scanty sputum. 

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Miscellaneous Natural Products. The longhst of natural products used in early cough preparations has diminished to the point where only a few are still mentioned. Four natural products stiU used occasionally outside the United States ate squill, hotehound, cociEana, and ipecac. 

During World War II (1939 to 1945), as a result of acute domestic shortages of common rodenticides, such as thallium, strychnine, and red squill, a testing program was initiated for... 

History. For centuries man has recognized that rodent pests destroy his habitat, consume his food, and cause the spread of virulent diseases. Throughout the same centuries man has sought to eliminate these pests with a variety of poisons such as strychnine, arsenious oxide, and red squill - a steroidal glycoside extracted from the bulb of a lily-like plant, Urginea maritima. 

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. 

The cardiac glycosides are mainly obtained from plants e.g. digitalis, stropanthus and squill species and also present in certain other plants and animals. In 1776, William Withering, a Birmingham... 

Cardiac glycosides with bufadienohde skeleton, e.g. proscillaridin A, have been found in plants (e.g. squill, Drimia maritima). 

Length Intmalty of this Hylu Item squill qutmtltioi of Coul-gufl. Oll-gan ... 

TART AMO ACID—2HO, CaH40,o—Addetartarique, Trench, Wdmteinmwre, Gorman—was first obtained in a separate state by Scheele in 1770. It is found partly free, partly combined with bases in many plants. It exists most largely in grape-juice, but it is met with also in tamarinds, and tha berry of the mountain ash In madder, potatoes, cucumbers, quassia, squills in mulberries, pine apples, et cetera. 

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