Definition of Culver's physic
1. Noun. A tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Scrophulariaceae, Figwort Family, Foxglove Family, Scrophulariaceae
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Literary usage of Culver's physic
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1. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"Culver-s- Root, Culver-s-Physic. Description.—Tube of the corolla longer than its limb, and much longer than the calyx. Both calyx and corolla sometimes ..."
2. The Characteristics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale, F. S. Whitman (1873)
"... and boiling and bubbling in the cheeks and region of the heart, o Pneumonia nervosa and typhus fever. LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA. (Black Root—"Culver,s Physic. ..."