American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

PREPARATIONS—
Tincture Amygdalus Persica. Dose, from ten to sixty minims.
Specific Medicine Amygdalus. Dose, from five to thirty minims.
Therapy—The older physicians suggested this remedy as specific to
irritation in the stomach, with persistent nausea and vomiting,
especially valuable in childhood where the tongue was elongated and
pointed, the edges red and the stomach tender on pressure. It has
invariably disappointed the author, but other physicians use it with much
confidence. it is said to relieve nervous vomiting and the vomiting of
pregnancy, and the persistent vomiting of cholera infantum. It is
sometimes best given in strong infusion of the bark of the green twigs.
The influence claimed for this by Scudder has not been confirmed by
more recent observers.
ANACARDIUM Anacardium occidentale.
Synonyms—Cashew Nut.
CONSTITUENTS—
It contains gallic acid and an acrid resin, anacardic acid, and
cardol.
PREPARATIONS—
A tincture is prepared. The commonest form of administration is the
Homeopathic mother tincture. Dose, from one-fourth of a drop to a drop,
four or five times a day.
Physiological Action—The juice of the rind is acrid, corrosive and
irritating. Externally it produces blisters, which are apt to be troublesome
and difficult of cure. It produces redness, inflammation, swelling and
deep ulceration.
Therapy—This remedy was first brought. into use, in the treatment of
Senegal fever, a peculiar fever of the Tropics, where quinine has proved
unavailing. Webster suggests that it may be found of value in the
treatment of mental disease, the result of nervous debility, especially that
form known as sexual neurasthenia, where there is loss of memory,
threatened dementia, failure of the will, great anxiety, and solicitation
concerning the condition, with general failure of the nervous power.
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