American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

Specific Yerba Santa; dose, from five to twenty minims.
Therapy—Yerba Santa has a soothing influence upon irritating, dry,
hacking, persistent cough.
It is of value in chronic bronchitis, chronic pneumonitis and in phthisis
pulmonalis, in allaying the cough which seems to increase the patient's
fee. bleness and advance the development of the disease. It is an
excellent remedy combined with grindelia robusta. It acts well in all forms
of cough where there is dryness of the mucous membranes, in
conjunction with other directly indicated remedies. It is prepared in the
form of a syrup, and like prunus virginiana, can be made a basis or vehicle
for other agents. The syrup conceals the bitter taste of quinine admirably.
ERYNGIUM. Eryngium aquaticum.
Synonym—Button Snakeroot.
CONSTITUENT—
Volatile oil.
PREPARATION—
Specific Eryngium. Dose, from one to ten minims.
Physiological Action—Diuretic, diaphoretic, expectorant, emetic.
Specific Symptomatology—Irritation of the bladder and urethra, dysuria,
atonic dropsy, gravel, chronic nephritis, chronic bronchitis with profuse
expectoration, chronic gonorrhcea, nymphomania and satyriasis, phthisis
with profuse expectoration, chronic laryngitis, mucous diarrhea and
summer complaint, epidemic influenza, scrofulous ophthalmia,
hemorrhoids and prolapsus ani.
Therapy—Eryngium is a general stimulant, being diaphoretic and
diuretic, with a special affinity for the mucous membranes. It has been
given in infusion as a diaphoretic, in dropsy, gravel and jaundice, and in
the commencing stage of catarrhal inflammation, such as occurs in the
upper air passages in epidemic influenza. It must be given early in acute
cases as a diaphoretic.
In chronic disease of the respiratory organs, with a relaxed condition of
the mucous membranes, it acts as a stimulating expectorant like senega.
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