American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

In scrofulous children its action is only temporary, and the syrup of
calcium phosphate, with Fowler's solution, and cod-liver oil may be
added to the treatment to overcome the constitutional tendency to
development of tubercular disease.
SCOPARIUS. Cytisus scoparius.
Synonym—Broom.
CONSTITUENTS—
Scoparin, sparteine, volatile oil, fatty matter, wax, tannin, mucilage,
albumin, sugar.
PREPARATIONS—
Extractum Scoparii Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Scoparius. Dose, from
twenty to forty grains.
Physiological Action—Poisonous doses of sparteine cause sweating,
vomiting dimness of vision, staggering gait, dizziness, a sense of weight
in the limbs, slowing of the pulse, convulsions, paralysis of the motor and
respiratory centers, and death by asphyxia. The preparations of scoparius
are non-toxic.
Administration—The best form of the remedy is infusion, half an ounce of
broom tops to half a pint of boiling, water, to be taken in divided doses in
twenty-four hours, till it acts on the kidneys or moves the bowels.
Therapy—Asthenic dropsies, dropsy with feebleness and loss of appetite,
hydrothorax without inflammation, dropsy from, heart disease. It has
cured diabetes, mellitus.
It should not be given in acute kidney troubles, or in dropsy from disease
of the liver or spleen.
STRAMONIUM. Datura stramonium.
Synonyms—Jamestown weed, Jimson weed.
CONSTITUENTS—
Daturine, which, according to Ladenburg, is a mixture of atropine
and hyoscyamine stramonin, scopolamine.
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