Pengelly Andrew Pengelly is author of The Constituents of Medicinal Plants . Found as understory in rich, hardwood forests East of the Missippi River, esp.
Radical compound leaves with sharply toothed margins.
In summer produces a compound raceme of white staminate flowers with superior ovaries. Fruit a single follicle, splitting down the inner suture at the top, producing up to 10 angular brown seeds. Reportedly cured many cases of yellow fever and smallpox. Rheumatism - root decoctions used externally to steam painful joints. Garden reported on the use of Cimicifuga racemosa in treating pulmonary TB - American Medical Recorder 1823.