American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

any kind it is of service and will be found beneficial in some cases of
muscular rheumatism.
Because of the exceedingly irritating character of this agent, but little
use has been made of it internally, and yet some excellent authorities
claim much benefit from its action. Dudgeon speaks of this agent as a
remedy for certain urinary conditions. He says it is a powerful antihemorrhagic
and has a marked influence in correcting the uric acid
diathesis. Rademacher prescribed thirty drops of the tincture five times
daily in a case of dropsy with haematuria, both conditions disappearing
promptly with the discharge of a large quantity of renal sand with the
urine which was greatly increased in amount. A pupil of Rademacher
gave the same dose to a woman suffering from strangury. She could not
retain the urine, which was turbid, containing a red sediment and there
was constant pain in the urethra, a cure resulting within one week.
Jousset has found the remedy useful in many forms of hemorrhage. Herr
used it with success in the painful urination of old people, both with and
without spasmodic retention. It apparently acts more satisfactorily where
there is an excess of uric acid and in these cases it deserves further trial.
THUJA. Thuja occidentalis.
Synonyms-Arbor vitae, white cedar.
CONSTITUENTS—
Colorless volatile oil, soluble in alcohol, with a sp. gr. 0.92, and a
yellow, crystallizable, bitter principle called thujin, punitannic (Kowalier)
and thujetic acid.
PREPARATIONS—
Extract non-alcoholic, Fluid Extract Arbor Vitae, not miscible with
water. Dose, from one-fourth to one dram.
Specific Medicine Thuja. Dose, from one to ten drops.
Administration—In the treatment of local conditions involving blood
changes, the beginning dosage should be small, and administered two or
three times per day. If, however, the condition does not show
improvement, especially where there is a cancerous cachexia, the dose
may be increased, if necessary, to one dram every two or three hours. In
non-malignant cases the dose may be much smaller. In warts and
excrescences, two small doses per day will often remove them in a few
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