American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

Specific Medicine Euphorbia. Dose, from one to ten minims.
Physiological Action—Emetic, diaphoretic, expectorant, epispastic. In
large doses it causes emeto-catharsis, and in some cases inflammation of
the stomach and bowels.
Therapy—Though euphorbia acts as an emetic it is but little used for that
purpose, being too harsh in its action, inducing hydragogue catharsis at
the same time. While in extreme doses it may cause acute gastroenteritis,
in small doses it stimulates normal functional activity of the
stomach, influencing the glandular function of the entire gastrointestinal
tract. In the atonic dyspepsia of enfeebled conditions of the
stomach, with bad breath, bad taste in the mouth, furred tongue, anorexia
and constipation with a sense of weight in the stomach, and occasional
colicky pains in the bowels, it is a good remedy. Ten drops of the tincture
in two ounces of water, a teaspoonful every two hours, will relieve this
common train of symptoms. It has been used in cholera infantum and
other summer diarrheas of children with good results. It is advised in the
tenesmus of dysentery, and in the diarrhea of exhausting diseases.
EUPHRASIA Euphrasia officinalis.
Synonym—Eyebright.
PREPARATIONS—
Specific Medicine Euphrasia; dose from one to sixty
Specific Symptomatology—The sphere of action of this agent is upon
irritating and catarrhal disease; first, of the upper portion of the
respiratory tract, and afterward of the mucous structures of the throat,
and bronchial tubes. It is more immediately beneficial if the discharge is
thin and wateryfluent. “Snuffles” in infants demands this remedy.
It is specific to acute disorders of the nasal mucous membranes. It is
especially applicable in children's cases, but is curative also in adults.
Where there is watery discharge from these membranes, where there is
earache, or headache, and especially if the distress be across the eyes, in
acute catarrhal affections, it has a direct influence upon the lachrymal
apparatus.
Therapy—In cough and hoarseness, where there is a thin bronchial
discharge, it is applicable especially to the catarrhal manifestations
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