14510. Misbranding   and   alleged   adulteration   of   bnchn   leaves,   burdock
root, and skullcap herb, and misbranding of valerian English, 
red clover flowers, goldenseal and mandrake root. U. S. v. 5% 
Pounds of Buchu Leaves, et al. Default decrees of condemna- 
tion, forfeiture and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 20041, 20042, 20043, 
20313, 20318. I. S. Nos. 13546-v, 13547-v, 13549-v, 13550-v, 24932-v, 
24933-v, 24937-v.    S. Nos. B-5302, E-5422.)  
On May 21 and August 7, 1925, respectively, the United States attorney 
for the Northern District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secret 
tary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district libels praying seizure and condemnation of 9*& pounds of red clover 
flowers, 4x/2 pounds of goldenseal, 4% pounds of mandrake root, 5% pounds 
of buchu leaves, 2V2 pounds of burdock root, 4 pounds of skullcap herb, and 
5y<z pounds of valerian English, alleging that the articles had been shipped 
by G. S. Cheney Co., Boston, Mass., in various consignments, on or about 
December 18, 1924, January 15, February 4, and March 16 and 17, 1925, re- 
spectively, and transported from the State of Massachusetts into the State 
of New York, and charging adulteration and misbranding, as hereinafter set 
forth, in violation of the food And drugs act as amended. The articles were 
labeled in part, respectively: (Red clover flowers) "An excellent remedy for 
cancerous ulcers, corns, etc.," (goldenseal) " Invaluable in dyspepsia, erysip- 
elas, remittent, intermittent and typhoid fevers, torpor of the liver, etc.," 
(mandrake root) "Valuable in jaundice, bilious and intermittent fever, scrof- 
ula, syphilis, liver complaint, etc.," (buchu leaves) "Much Used in Kidney and 
Urinary Disorders," (burdock root) " Used in scorbutic syphilitic scrofulous gout 
and leprous diseases," (valerian English) " Used in chorea, nervous debility, 
hysteria, and low forms of fever where a nervous stimulant is required," 
(skullcap herb) "Valuable in all nervous complaints, chorea, wakefulness, 
delirium tremens, convulsions, excitability, etc."
Adulteration was alleged with respect to the buchu leaves and burdock 
root for the reason that they were sold under names recognized in the 
United States Pharmacopoeia and differed from the standard of strength, 
quality and purity of the official drug, the chemical analyses showing that 
the former contained 5.23 per cent of ash, and that the latter contained