American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

In the treatment of the bite of venomous snakes and in anticipated
hydrophobia, and in poisoning from canned fish and other meats—in
ptomaine poisoning, the salts are administered in maximum doses.
The patient will show but little of the prostrating influences of the drug. It
is eliminative in its influence, only the poison must be antidoted by the
proper remedy, and in organic poisons the permanganate of potassium is
an efficient remedy.
CUBEBA. Piper cubeba.
Synonym—Cubebs.
CONSTITUENTS—
Volatile oil, fixed oil, wax, resin, cubebin, gum, malates, cubebic
acid.
PREPARATIONS—
Extractum Cubebae Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Cubeb. Dose, from five
to thirty minims.
Oleum Cubebae, Oil of Cubeb. Dose, ten minims.
Oleoresina Cubebae, Oleoresin of Cubeb. Dose, from five to thirty
minims.
Specific Cubeb. Dose, from five to twenty minims.
Physiological Action—Stimulant, carminative, expectorant, stomachic. It
stimulates the intestinal tract like black pepper, and, in excessive doses,
causes nausea, vomiting, burning pain, griping and purging. The active
principle being absorbed causes general stimulation and a feverish
condition, and sometimes redness of the skin.
Therapy—Cubebs is in common use in the treatment of gonorrhea. Its
best results are obtained when the active stage has passed, being
especially useful in gleet, and also useful in the discharge present after
acute prostatitis, especially if purulent in character, where the parts are
greatly debilitated and there is catarrh of the bladder with nocturnal
incontinence of urine, or in spermatorrhea with enfeeblement, it is a
useful remedy.
A snuff of Powdered cubebs is of much benefit in acute coryza if there is
free secretion. It is beneficial also in some chronic cases.
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