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AQ CARDUI BENED
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This blown and molded bottle reads <i> AQ CARDUI BENED</i> in black text, with the first initial of each word in red. It would have contained Aqua Cardui Benedicti, or Blessed Thistle Water that would have been made from the Cnicus benedictus thistle. It was used as a tonic, diaphoretic, and emetic.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineAQ CARDUI BENED. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
