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- 1841, Morris Mattson, The American Vegetable Practice, , page 264:
- The cocash grows in wet grounds, and by the edges of small streams. The flowers make their appearance about the first of September, and remain in bloom until late in the autumn. The lower or radical leaves, especially about springs, and warm, sheltered places, continue green all winter. They have an agreeable, aromatic taste, with some astringency, and bitterness.
- 1841, Samuel Thomson, The Thomsonian Materia Medica: Or, Botanic Family Physician: Comprising a Philosophical Theory, the Natural Organization and Assumed Principles of Animal and Vegetable Life: to which are Added the Description of Plants and Their Various Compounds, page 703:
- COCASH-Aster Hyssopifolius. Cocash is good for vertigo, nervous affections, and coldness of the extremities. It may be profitably employed as a remedy for canker.
- 1855, Daniel Smith, The Reformed Botanic and Indian Physician, page 296:
- Steep four ounces cocash roots in one quart brandy, let it stand forty-eight hours, and wash the afflicted part night and morning with it, and take one-half wine-glassful inwardly, night and morning.
- mentions, useful for identifying the plant
- 1852, Wooster Beach, The American practice of medicine v. 3, 1852, page 258:
- COCASH. Common Names — Meadow-Scabish, Frostweed, Red-stalked Aster, &c.
- A. puniceus. — Leaves clasping, lanceolate, serrate, roughish;
- 1905, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Bulletin, page 22:
- Cocash . See Aster puniceus.
- Cocash-weed . See Senecio aureus.