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Hops may cause drowsiness.

Contraindications:
Hops is contraindicated in cases of known allergy to the plant material.
Warnings: No information available.

Other precautions:
No information available on general precautions or on precautions concerning drug and
laboratory test interactions; teratogenic or non -teratogenic effects in pregnancy; nursing
mothers; or paediatric use.

Dosage forms:
Dried strobiles and dried extracts for infusions and decoctions,dry ex-tracts, fluidextracts,
and tinctures.
Store in a tightly sealed con¬tainer away from heat and ligh t.
Posology: (Unless otherwise indicated)

Cut or powdered strobiles or dry powder for infusion, decoctions and other preparations,
single dose of 0.5 g.

Liquid and solid preparations for internal use, infusion or decoction, 0.5 g in 150 ml of
water; fluidextract 1:1 (g/ml) 0.5 ml; tincture 1:5 (g/ml) 2.5 ml; native dry extract 6-8:1
(w/w) 0.06-0.08 g.

Colocynth (Bitter apple)

Colocynth is the dried unripe but fully grown fruits of Citrullus colocynthis, family
Cucurbitaceae, deprived of its seeds and outer hard pericarp.

Macroscopical characters:
Colocynth is true, simple, succulent berry of inferior ovary. The official part is the pithy
pulp (mesocarp and placenta).
Colocynth occurs in light spongy easily broken, globular masses or in pieces of variable
sizes. The pieces are white or pale yellowish -white, with occasional small patches of
darker epicarp and consisting of narrow mesocarp and three wide bifid placenta.
Externally, the pieces are convex with ridges and flattened areas. Internally, the pieces
are irregularly concave and showing numerous ovoid depressions left by the removal of
the seeds.

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