American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

Collinsonia is a heart tonic of direct and permanent influence. It does not
seem to stimulate the heart to sudden action, but its continued use
induces steady, permanent and highly satisfactory improvement in the
strength and character of the organ, and a correspondingly improved
general circulation.
It is valuable when the heart is debilitated from protracted fevers, or from
rheumatic inflammation or from overstrain. It will be found
excellent in the bicycle heart, in conjunction with small doses of cactus
grand.
In chronic laryngitis or pharyngitis, with relaxed walls of the larynx, with
dark discoloration and enfeebled capillary circulation, collinsonia
exercises a specific influence, especially in the condition known as
clergyman's sore throat, caused or increased by the use of the voice.
In atonic conditions of the circulation of a local character, where passive
hemorrhages are of frequent occurrence without apparent cause, where
there is increasing debility, collinsonia and hamamelis in conjunction
given as above indicated are positively curative.
I have made some important observations within the last five years, and
have collected the observations of others, which must be added to our
knowledge of this remedy. Guided by its influence upon the walls of the
veins, I have given it in large doses persistently in the treatment of
varicocele, and have obtained satisfactory results. I would advise that it
be given in the early stage of this difficulty, and if the condition is
anticipated in boys, or youth at the age of puberty, the patient may be put
on this remedy and kept on it, for some time.
My suggestions concerning its positive action in hemorrhoids alone, or
combined with hamamelis, as may be indicated, have been acted upon by
very many physicians who have reported brilliant results, and an
increasing confidence in the remedy.
This agent having a specific influence as suggested above, upon the walls
of both the veins and the arterioles has been my most reliable remedy in
the treatment of varicosis. This may be general or local, it may be
permanent or temporary, as in pregnancy. I have had admirable results
with this and hamamelis combined in the treatment of extreme cases of
varicosis of the vaginal walls and pudenda, during pregnancy. Cases
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