American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

It will relieve the irregular heart action often accompanying chronic
coughs, and improve the strength and general character of that organ.
Grindelia has relieved many cases of hay fever and has cured some few,
for the time being. In the chronic cough following pneumonia the agent
has been used with good results.
As an application to the skin when poisoned by rhus toxicodendron, this
agent it; valuable. It acts promptly and satisfactorily.
It is curative also in the bites of insects, quickly antidoting the poisoning.
As applied to old indolent ulcers it has given unusual satisfaction in a
few cases, although not often used.
Co-operatives—It may be combined with good results with lobelia,
stramonium, drosera, or ipecac, and in some cases for continued use,
small doses of the iodide of potassium will act nicely with it.
Grindelia squarrosa.
Grindelia squarrosa is closely allied to the grindelia robusta, but is in
general a less leafy and bushy plant, and is smaller. Some authors are
not satisfied that there is sufficient difference between them to make
them distinct plants. In the West they are not recognized as the same.
Therapy—Dr. Webster is authority for the statement that grindelia
squarrosa is specific in its anti-malarial properties. He is very positive
concerning its influence upon headaches, and especially those of
malarial origin. Headache present where there are masked intermittent
symptoms, headache accompanied with dizziness, and some nausea,
where the subject walks with the sensation that he is going to stagger. It
seems as though his equilibrium were uncertain, or where there is mild
staggering and irregular gait, where the head feels light and dizzy all the
time. In this form, grindelia squarrosa is a positive and specific remedy,
decided and satisfactory in its action.
Another form of headache which this agent will cure is one that seems to
follow, and depend upon slow autointoxication. It is persistent, day after
day, and there is dullness, drowsiness, and dizziness. There is apt to be
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