American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

Therapy—It is indicated when there is atonicity of the digestive
apparatus, especially when there is any irritation whatever. In
debilitating disease of the stomach or bowels it is an excellent remedy. It
is restorative in fevers, improving the general nutrition by the
improvement of the tone of the organs of digestion and assimilation. It is
useful after protracted diarrheas and dysentery, after cholera infantum
when a non-irritating tonic is needed, and in cholera morbus, being of
benefit in promoting restoration in these cases. It will relieve the
vomiting of this disease, and a few drops of the tincture will also relieve
vomiting in seasickness, and has been beneficial in the vomiting of
pregnancy.
It is useful in overcoming intestinal flatus, an infusion in inflamma-tory
intestinal disease being most satisfactory.
In chronic malaria with marked intermittent fever it is valuable.
JUGLANS. Juglans cinerea.
Synonym—Butternut.
CONSTITUENTS—
A resin, juglandin, a fixed oil, juglandic acid.
PREPARATIONS—
Extractum Juglandis Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Juglans. Dose, from
one minim to one-half dram.
Tinctura Juglandis, Tincture of Juglans. Dose, from five minims to
one dram.
Specific Medicine Juglans. Dose, from one-third to one minim;
prescribed from ten drops to one-half dram in four ounces of water, a
teaspoonful every one, two or three hours.
Juglandin. Dose, from one-fifth of a grain to one grain.
Physiological Action—Experiments with the drug have ascertained that it
influences, with great energy, the liver, small intestines, colon and
rectum, causing an increased manufacture and elimination of bile, as
well as increased activity of the glands of the intestinal tract. Full doses
produce large bilious evacuations, without much pain or griping, in
which respect its action very much resembles that of iris versicolor.
Therapy—It is said to be a valuable remedy in duodenal catarrh, with
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