American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

from an excess of acids.
This case was not permanently benefited by the ordinary treatment. The
administration of pulsatilla and echinacea before meals finally completed
the cure. Pulsatilla was given in large doses, from eight to twenty minims.
Another writer cured the excessive acidity of these cases with five-drop
doses of passiflora, every two hours.
It is given in bronchial and pulmonary irritation and in bronchial
asthma.
It is used in eruptive fevers, and in those cases of measles in which the
eruption produces excessive irritation of the post-nasal cavity, throat and
bronchial tubes.
It has been lauded in rheumatism, but any specific influence in this
condition is not ascribed to it.
In gonorrheal epididymitis or in gonorrheal orchitis, the agent may be
given with excellent results, especially if there be gleet and stricture.
Small and frequent doses are better than large infrequent doses. It
speedily relieves the pain and nervous excitability. It is advised for
internal use for frost bites.
ANEMOPSIS. Anemopsis californica.
Synonym—Yerba Del Manza.
This is highly valued by the native Indians of Southern California and
Mexico. The California observers have used it extensively.
The remedy possesses tonic astringent and antiseptic properties.
The dose of anemopsis specific medicine is from five to thirty drops. The
root is the part used in medicine.
It is a tonic not only to the gastro-intestinal tract, but also to the
respiratory and renal organs. It has an aromatic warming and astringent
taste, not at all unpleasant. It seems to possess properties very much like
those of piper methysticum, and it can be used in the same conditions, as
a tonic; combined with very small doses of specific nux vomica it is very
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