- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Coniferae
- English Names
- Scotch Fir
- Scotch Pine
- Norway Spruce Fir
- Natural Habitat
- Germany
- France
- Eastern Europe
- Sweden
- Russia
- Finland
- Siberia
- Asia
- North America
- Part(s) Used
- Folia Pini
- Gemmae Pini = Turiones Pini
- Oleum Pini
- Resina Pini Burgundicae = Pix alba = Pix Burgundica
- Resina Pini Galipot
- Cortex Pini
- Semen Pinearum = Nuces Pinearum
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- Constituent(s)
- leaf: essential oil
- turpentine
- bitter principle; bud: essential oil
- resin
- starch
- tannin
- wax
- pinipicrin (bitter principle); kernel: fatty oil; bark: tannin
- resin
- turpentine
- pimaric acid
- Action
- bud: diuretic
- expectorant
- rubefacient; oil: expectorant
- rubefacient
- used for producing Pix liquida; pitch: stimulant
- antiseptic
- pectoral
- expectorant; resin: vulnerary; bark: tanning agent; leaf: aromatic
- anti-rheumatic; kernel: used in confectionery. P. S. The fungus Polyporus officinalis (Agaric of the Larch) grows on the stems of Larix Sibirica in Northern Russia
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