American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

The dose of the powdered resin is from one to twenty grains.
The dose of the tincture is from one to four drams.
The ammoniated tincture may be given in doses of from ten to forty
minims.
Specific Symptomatology—Inflamed tonsils, swollen, tumid and
painful. Painful deglutitions. Dribbling of saliva. Persistent dryness of the
throat, with difficulty in swallowing. Rheumatic difficulty, accompanying
tonsilitis. Rheumatic disease, accompanied with any soreness of the
throat.
Therapy—This remedy is a most active astringent in full doses, and yet
in overdoses it acts as a cathartic. In medium doses it influences acute
dysentery and diarrhea, and other relaxed conditions of the bowels. In
very small doses, from the one-twenty-fifth to the one-tenth of a grain of
the resin, it is said to cure some cases of habitual constipation, those
depending upon extreme atonicity.
Prof. Locke says the remedy is not available when there is a high degree
of inflammation, with great vascular excitement.
The agent has long been used as a remedy for chronic rheumatism. It
seems to influence the elimination in a satisfactory manner. In
rheumatic sore throat and rheumatic pharyngitis, it is a good remedy.
The indications for rhus toxicodendron will often be found present with
the indications for this agent. Guaiacum of old, had a reputation in the
cure of syphilis. It has alterative properties and is useful in some cases of
skin disease of a chronic character, but we have superior remedies.
HAMAMELIS. Hamamelis virginica.
Synonym—Witch-hazel.
CONSTITUENTS—
Tannin, volatile oil, a bitter principle.
PREPARATIONS—
Extractum Hamamelis Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Hamamelis. Dose,
from ton to sixty minims.
Distilled Extract of Hamamelis. Dose, from ten to sixty minims.
Specific Medicine Hamamelis. Dose, from five to sixty minims.
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