American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

torpidity of the liver and chronic jaundice. Small doses have been
successfully employed in dysentery, bilious diarrhoea, and in intestinal
diseases, with symptoms indicating irritability, hyperemia, or a tendency
to inflammation. Chronic constipation can be successfully corrected by
medium doses of the extract, if the affection depends upon defective
elimination of bile, causing the stools to be clay-colored and dry from a
lack of biliary and glandular secretion.
Combined with other agents, as hyoscyamus, belladonna, nux vomica,
leptandra or capsicum, a most excellent pill can be made, which will cure
many cases the above conditions, and will stimulate the stomach and
intestinal tract, in those atonic or debilitated conditions which induce
chronic dyspepsia.
In the skin disorders named under dandelion, pustular and eczematous,
it will act in the same manner as dandelion, and may be advantageously
combined with that agent.
It is specifically adapted to skin diseases associated with some abnormal
condition of the intestinal tract. Eczema, herpes circinatus, acne,
impetigo, pemphigus, rupia, prurigomoluscum, lichen and chronic scaly
skin diseases, yield to its influence with appropriate auxiliary measures.
Irritation of mucous membranes, chronic inflammation of the throat,
eruption over the body like that of scarlatina, noli me tangere, scrofulous
enlargement of glands, congestion and irritation of the respiratory and
gastric mucous membranes, nursing sore mouth, ulcers in the mouth
with constipation, rheumatism of the muscles in the lumbar region, yield
to its influence.
Juglans cinerea has proved to be curative of a great variety of skin
diseases, whether scaly or pustular, whether characterized by papules or
bullae, as stated above, so long as the lesion is associated with some
disorder of digestion and assimilation
It is analogous to arsenic in its action in squamous affections, and to
Sulphide of calcium in pustular diseases of the skin.
It may be used to advantage, both locally and internally, in chronic and
illconditioned ulcers, stimulating waste and improving nutrition.
In the treatment of skin diseases with Juglans, a saturated tincture of the
fresh inner bark should be employed in small doses, at the same time that
the remedy is used as a local application. In obstinate cases of chronic
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