American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

emedy here because it promises well for the future, and must not be
overlooked.
CAJUPUT. Melaleuca cajuputi.
Part Employed—The volatile oil. Solvent, alcohol. Dose, from two to ten
minims.
CONSTITUENTS—
Cajeputene, iso-cajeputene, and para-cajeputene.
PREPARATIONS—
Spiritus Cajuputi, Spirit of Cajuput. Dose, one fluid dram.
Mistura Cajuputi Composita, compound Cajuput Mixture. (Hunn's,
Life Drops.) Dose, from, one to two fluid drams.
Tinctura Camphorae Composita, Compound Tincture of Camphor.
Dose, twenty drops.
Therapy—It is used in the typhoid state, in the stage of collapse in
Asiatic cholera, in exhaustion from cholera infantum, the typhoid
condition in malignant scarlet fever.
Oil of cajuput is a diffusible stimulant of great power, and is indicated in
all depressed and collapsed states of disease where there is no
inflammation; such as we find in the advanced stage of adynamic fevers
and malignant diseases.
Cajuput is a vermifuge, and may be used to destroy intestinal worms. It is
antispasmodic, and is one of the most successful remedies ever employed
in the painful cramps of Asiatic cholera. It is equally efficient in cholera
morbus, cholera infantum, nervous vomiting, hysteria, and wherever
there is depression of the vital powers associated with spasmodic action.
It is important that there should be no inflammation present when cajuput
is employed; and when it is given internally in such complaints as
cholera morbus, or spasms of the bowels, care should be taken not to
excite inflammation of the stomach by a too free use of the remedy.
Its action is similar to prickly ash as a stimulant.
In the combinations known as Hunn's Drops and the compound liniment
of camphor it has been employed.
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