American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

In many cases of urinary incontinence both in children and in the aged,
it will produce satisfactory cures. It apparently acts as a tonic and
sedative to the muscular structures of the urinary apparatus, as old
people who suffer from a general debilitated condition and are troubled
with dribbling, have the power to control the urine restored. It should be
used freely in such cases, and its influence when specifically defined
will give it an important place in the therapeutics of enuresis.
It has an influence not to be overlooked in passive hemorrhages from the
urinary apparatus—haematuria, controlling most satisfactorily many
cases. It is useful in passive uterine hemorrhage and in pulmonary and
bronchial hemorrhage. It is also useful in controlling night sweats and
the diarrhea of phthisis. The hemorrhage often present in chronic
diarrhea and dysentery is restrained by it, when it checks the action of
the bowels also, improving the tone and restoring normal function.
If satisfactory results are not obtained from small doses it may be pushed
until sixty-drops are given to an adult.
In purpura hemorrhagica it has worked nicely and will often be found
useful. It has cured many cases of leucorrhea and of gonorrhea and other
passive discharges of a catarrhal character.
SUMACH Rhus glabra.
Synonym—Smooth Sumach.
CONSTITUENTS—
Volatile oil, resin, tannic and gallic acid, albumen, gum, starch. The
berries contain malic acid in combination with lime.
PREPARATIONS—
Extractum Rhois Fluidum (A. D.), Fluid Extract of Sumach Bark.
Dose, from a half to one dram.
Extractum Rhois Glabrae Fluidum (U. S. P.), Fluid Extract of
Sumach Berries. Dose, one dram.
Specific Symptomatology—Its influence is upon mucous surfaces in a
relaxed, ulcerated and phlegmonous, but irritable and intractable
condition.
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