Bleeding Powder

The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics Written by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D. 1922 - Yarrow

Botanical name: Achillea millefolium The whole plant Achillea millefolium, Linné (Nat. Ord. Compositae); a common wayside and field herb in North America and Europe. Common Names: Yarrow, Milfoil, Thousand Leaf. Principal Constituents.—The bitter alkaloid achilleine (C20H38N2O15), achilleic acid (aconitic acid); a volatile oil, tannin, and potassium and calcium salts. Preparation.—Specific Medicine Achillea. Dose, 5 to 30 drops. Specific Indications.—Atony and relaxation of tissue, with free discharges; passive hemorrhage. Action and Therapy.—Achillea is astringent and tonic. Its chief virtues are shown in its occasional control of passive menorrhagia due wholly to atony, and not to the presence of tissue change or destruction. It sometimes relieves hematuria, and is soothing to the urinary tract.

The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, Edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others. - Bugleweed

Lycopus. U. S. 1870. Lycopus virginicus L. Lycope de Virginie, Fr. Virginischer Wolfsfuss, G.—The bugle-weed is a labiate which grows throughout the greater part of the Eastern United States. The whole herb is used. Jos. L. Weil found 0.41 per cent. of fat melting at 50° C. (122° F.), 0.68 per cent. of a granular wax melting at 70° C. (158° F.), 0.43 per cent. of a crystallizable resin soluble in ether, a crystallizable glucoside, and a small quantity of gallic acid and tannin. (A. J. P., 1890, 72.) It has a peculiar odor and a nauseous slightly bitter taste, which it imparts to boiling water. Lycopus europaeus L., a native of Europe, growing in waste places from Massachusetts to Virginia, is said to be frequently collected and sold for L. virginicus. The former may be distinguished by its acutely quadrangular stem, its narrow lanceolate leaves, of which the lower are somewhat pinnatifid, its more crowded flowers, and the acute segments of its calyx, armed with short spines. It has been employed in Europe as a substitute for quinine. According to A. W. Ives, the bugle-weed is a mild narcotic and an astringent, useful in pulmonic and other hemorrhages. Dose of decoction (one ounce to one pint of boiling water), from one to four fluidounces (30-120 mils).

The Family Herbal, 1812, was written by John Hill. - Shepherd’s Purse

Botanical name: Capsella bursa-pastoris Plate 43.Bursa pastoris. The most common almost of all wild plants, over-running our garden-beds, and court-yards. The leaves spread upon the ground, and are long somewhat broad, and more or less indented at the edges, for in this there is great variation: the stalks are round, upright, and eight or ten inches high, they have few leaves on them. The flowers stand at the tops in little clusters, and they are small and white: below there is commonly a kind of spike of the seed-vessels: these are short, broad, and of the figure of a bag;, or pouch, and are divided a little at the end. The seeds are small and yellowish, and the roots white. The juice of Shepherd's purse is cooling and astringent; it is good against purgings, with sharp and bloody stools; against the bleeding of the piles, and the overflowing of the menses.