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Cow Parsnep, All-heal, Cow-mumble, (Sc.) Bunetcand, Pentandria Digynia. Dedicated to' Hercules.' The root of this plant has a strong, rank smell; and a pungent, almost caustic taste. It has been given as a tonic, stomachic and carminative; both in powder and in decoction. The Russians, Lithuanians, and Poles obtain from its seeds and leaves, by fermentation, a very intoxicating spirituous liquor, which they call Parst. The root of Heracleum Lanatum, Masterwort, Cow parsnep,-Heracleum (Ph. U. S.)-is in the secondary list of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States.