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The agent has been widely used in the treatment of this disease, and is as
efficient as any other single remedy. The writer's experience proves that it
acts best in those cases that have been long continued, with a
comparatively small amount of sugar present, where the slow progress of
the disease has not materially influenced the general health of the
patient.
Among the qualified, observing physicians of India, it is believed that its
use will prevent the conversion of starches into sugar to any excessive
extent, and that starchy diet can be eaten with impunity during its
administration.
EUONYMUS. Euonymus atropurpureus.
Synonym—Wahoo.
CONSTITUENTS—
Euonymin, Atropurpurin, Asparagin, Euonic acid, resin, wax, fixed
oil.
PREPARATIONS—
Extractum Euonymi Siccum, dried Extract of Euonymus. Dose, from
one to three grains.
Specific Medicine Euonymus. Dose, from five to thirty minima.
Extractum Euonymi Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Euonymus. Dose,
from one to three drams.
Physiological Action—The agent is actively cathartic and alterative to an
excellent extent, through its influence upon the function of the
glandular organs. It exercises a distinct tonic influence.
Specific Symptomatology—Indigestion with biliousness, constipation,
chronic intermittents with cachexia; pulmonary phthisis with nightsweats
and great weakness; dropsical affections following acute disease;
in convalescence from severe intermittent fever; enlargement of the liver;
chronic bronchitis.
Therapy—Euonymus, or wahoo, is chiefly valuable as a tonic in malarial
cachexia. It is antiperiodic, but much feebler than quinine. In those
cases of indigestion and constipation with a yellowish tint of the
conjunctiva, and round the mouth, the tongue being coated and of a
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