American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

CONSTITUENTS—
There is found an excess of resin, agaric acid, agaricol, cholesterin,
and agaricin.
PREPARATIONS—
The tincture, dose from one to five drops.
Agaracin, from one-sixteenth to one-fourth of a grain.
Specific Boletus, from one-fourth of a drop to five drops.
Specific Symptomatology—Chilliness at regular intervals, followed by
marked fever. Alternate chills and flushes of heat, with severe aching in
the back, colliquative sweats, night sweats of phthisis.
Therapy—The remedy is applicable to all conditions of malarial origin. It
is especially useful in those localities where malaria and the results of
malaria prevail. The symptoms are languor, dullness, and general
malaise, long continued, with the usual results, such as disordered
digestion, lack of appetite, heavily coated tongue, pale mucous
membranes. Usually there is a bitter taste in the mouth, often persistent,
with constipation, and a dull, persistent headache. The temperature will
be quite erratic. In some cases there is a little fever always present. In
others, there is a marked intermission. The intermission, or remission,
may be irregular, not only in time, but in amount.
The agent is astringent apparently, and overcomes all excessive
secretion. The broncho-pulmonary secretion of incipient phthisis, or the
night sweats of the protracted cases, are benefited by this remedy. It also
controls the rapid circulation and seems to exercise a favorable influence
over the hectic fever. It also favorably influences the diarrhea of this
disease. It seems to allay the thirst and control the cough with many of
these patients.
It will arrest the flow of milk, in the nursing woman, and will correct in
many cases the tendency to passive hemorrhages. Some claim that it will
check arterial hemorrhage, making the application of a ligature
unnecessary.
Dr. Henderson uses boletus as a treatment for alcoholism. Those who are
constantly under the influence of alcohol, trembling, weak with cold
skin, he gives one or two drops of the specific medicine every two hours.
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