American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

water, wrung out and applied over painful acute local inflammations and
painful swellings, is a favorite domestic measure. Applied to facial
neuralgia, or over an ulcerating tooth, or in the earache of children, it
allays pain and promotes sleep.
In the treatment of delirium tremens a capsule containing a grain of
capsicum and eight grains of lupulin given during the intense excitement
preceeding the attack, will sometimes ward it off. Half of a teaspoonful of
each of the tinctures in combination may be given. A strong infusion of
hops and cayenne pepper is excellent in this case to be drunk hot as
demanded.
The anaphrodisiac influence of this agent suggests its use in priapism
and in chordee, and in spermatorrhea where these conditions exist, and
where there is sudden active determination of blood to the parts. It is not
the remedy when the parts are cold, weak, inactive and non-excitable,
and where the erections are feeble or impossible. Five to ten grains of
lupulin at bedtime, with ten or fifteen drops of the fluid extract of ergot in
those cases where the tendency to fullness of the circulation is marked,
will preserve rest and quiet for the night. A full dose of camphor
monobromate with lupulin is excellent.
A suppository containing lupulin and camphor monobromate, five or six
grains of each, or the one-fourth of a grain of ergotin, may be inserted
into the rectum at bedtime with fine results.
The sedative effect of lupulin is exercised to a good advantage in the
treatment of nocturnal emissions by its influence in soothing the nerve
centers, promoting rest and sleep, especially in hysterical patients, and
in those who suffer from irritation in the genito-urinary tract and in the
control of sexual excitement and desire. It prevents cerebral hyperemia
and corrects disorders of the gastro-intestinal tract. It modifies the
secretion of the gastric fluids inhibiting the output of acids.
HYDRANGEA. Hydrangea arborescens.
Synonyms—Wild Hydrangea, Seven Barks.
PREPARATION—
Extract of Hydrangeae Fluidum. Fluid Extract of Hydrangea. Dose,
from. ten to thirty minims.
Specific Medicine Hydrangeae—Dose, from five to thirty minims
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