(From consisto, to abide). The state or acme of a disease. When applied to the fluids, excrements, or excretions, it imports their consistence. Consoides. See Amianthus. Consolida, (from its supposed power of consolidating and agglutinating things broken). Com-frey; called also alum, and alus Gallica.

Consolida major; symphytum majus; greater comfrey. Symphytum officinale Lin. Sp. Pi. 195.

A rough hairy plant, with large, somewhat oval, pointed leaves, producing, on the tops of the branches, spikes of white or purplish pendulous, nearly cylindrical, flowers, followed each by four shining black seeds. The root is thick and fleshy, black on the outside, and white within. It is perennial, grows wild in moist grounds, and flowers in May or June. There is a sort with purple flowers, but it is rarely to be met with. The purple and the white flowers are but varieties of the same species.

The whole plant is used, but the root is the only part that deserves notice; it yields in boiling about two thirds of its weight of mucilage, almost void of smell and taste, and similar to that from the althaea, but more tenacious. The comfrey is, therefore, probably preferable. This mucilage is its only medicinal principle. See Lewis's Mat. Med. Neumann's Chem. Works. Raii Hist.

Consolida aurea, and aurea cordi. See Chamaecistus.

Consolida media, and minima. Daisy. See Bu-gula, Bellis major and Minor.

Consolida minor, and rubra. See Prunella and Tormentilla.

Consolida saracenica. See Virga aurea. Consolidans. Consolidating, (from conso-lido, to make firm). This is applied to medicines that produce new flesh.