American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

general bubonic inflammation. He believes the remedy to be very
valuable in leucorrhea, and diseases where there is an excessive outpour
of mucus. He gave it also when the abdomen seemed to be filled with
nodules, when there was diarrhea or cholera infantum.
He claimed that it will reduce the mammary glands if taken too long by
females, and in males it will reduce the size of the testicles. It does not
cause derangement of the stomach nor produce free action of the
kidneys.
When the glands are large or inflamed either in the acute or chronic
form he believes that this remedy is superior to our other glandular
remedies, even to phytolacca. With it he can determine whether an
enlarged gland is simple, or whether a tumor is developing. He gives it in
bubo, ostitis, and mastitis with excellent results; also when the glands of
the skin are affected.
It can be correctly adjusted to the uric acid diathesis, in dropsy, with
debility and loss of appetite. Also in cases where there are inflamed and
ulcerated cervical glands, enlargement of the parotid glands from
retained excrementitious products, dropsy after scarlatina and measles,
dropsy with debility from any cause, chronic rheumatism, skin diseases
with enlarged cervical glands in scrofulous subjects, hectic fever with
night sweats, enlargement of the mesenteric glands, also where there is
an inflamed and swollen prostate gland, with discharge of prostatic fluid,
urine thick, ropy, with bloody sediment, itching and pain in the urethra
and bladder, strangury, chronic gonorrhea, chronic nephritis, urethritis
with profuse and purulent discharge, obstinate and ill-conditioned
ulcers, in latter stages of typhoid fever with deficient excretion, tumors of
the mammae supposed to be cancerous, this agent is used.
In dropsy associated with debility and enlarged glands it should be given
freely.
In acute rheumatism a warm infusion should be given till it produces
perspiration, while hot fomentations of the same should be applied to the
swollen and painful joints.
In obstinate skin diseases in scrofulous subjects, the tincture from the
fresh leaves should be applied to the diseased skin and taken internally.
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