Cold Away Tincture

Translated Textbook of Biological Remedies, 1938, was written by Dr. Gerhard Madaus. - Brigham Tea

Various types of ephedra growing wild in Mongolia are mentioned in the old Chinese pharmacopoeias as diaphoretics and antipyretic, as well as for coughing. Herbae Ephedrae conc. (Kuzmitsch herb) in Russia is peristaltic and diuretic. Scientists differ widely on the parent plant of this drug, and consequently there is still great confusion in the pharmaceutical literature. Ephedra vulg applies in many textbooks (eg Meyer-Gottlieb, Exp. Pharm., P. 433, 1935.). var .. helvetica as the parent plant of the Ma Huang drug, with others the Ephedra intermedia Schnk. var. tibetica Stpf. the E. equisetina Bunge et al. (Wehmer, Die Gemüsestoffe, Vol. I, p. 523, Vol. II, p. 1286, 1929; Supplement, p. 80, 1935.). The following should be noted here. The ephedrine occurs in the European species only in a very negligible amount (Miller, Arch. F. Pharm. 1902, 240, 481.). The crude alkaloid ephedrine was first found by Jamanashi in 1885 in the Chinese drug Ma Huang, purely represented from the same byNagai 1887 and 1892 (Nagai, Ph. Ztg. 1887, p. 621.), from which the name ephedrine also comes. Only the green branches, not the older ones, are suitable for alkaloid extraction, the roots are alkaloid-free, they should contain another base. In order to clarify which ephedrine drug is the most effective, the Tang Teng-Han dissertation in Berlin (Tang Teng-Han, Contributions to the Pharmacology of Ephedrine Drugs, Dissertation. Berlin 1929.) is very welcome. It corrects some of the earlier work on ephedrine and also brings further literature. On the detection of 1-ephedrine and other ephedrines in Ephedra vulgaris Rich. var. helvetica Hook et Thoms cf. also Wolfes (Wolfes, Arch. Pharm. And Ber. Pharm. Ges. 1930, 268, 327 (CC 1930).). According to Wasicky (Wasicky, Lehrb. D. Physiopharm., P. 523, 1932.), the drug Mupen-Ma Huang, which is hardly exported from China, comes from Ephedra equisetina Bunge, while the drug Tsaopen-Ma Huang, which is the European import product, comes from Ephedra sinica Stapf or Ephedra Shenntiana Tang is won. effect Hübotter (Hübotter, Contributions to Knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan-Mongolian Pharmacology, p. 119, Berlin-Vienna 1913.) writes about the use in Chinese-Mongolian folk medicine as follows: opens the hair pores, heals insults caused by both wind and cold; medicine heals headache, prevents the pneuma from rising when coughing with fever and chills, is effective against various types of cough, against red and black poison (?), against rashes caused by toxic winds, against anesthesia of the skin and the flesh (i.e. superficial) and deep anesthesia) against redness and painful swelling of the eye, against water retention and wound retention. Too large doses of medicine cause a very strong sweating, ruin the male principle (which results in death). Do not use the medicine in the summer months. prevents the pneuma from rising when the cough is accompanied by fever and chills, is effective against various types of cough, against red and black poison (?), against rashes caused by toxic winds, against skin and meat anesthesia (i.e. superficial and deep anesthesia) against redness and painful swelling of the eye, against water retention and wound retention. Too large doses of medicine cause a very strong sweating, ruin the male principle (which results in death). Do not use the medicine in the summer months. prevents the pneuma from rising when the cough is accompanied by fever and chills, is effective against various types of cough, against red and black poison (?), against rashes caused by toxic winds, against skin and meat anesthesia (i.e. superficial and deep anesthesia) against redness and painful swelling of the eye, against water retention and wound retention. Too large doses of medicine cause a very strong sweating, ruin the male principle (which results in death). Do not use the medicine in the summer months. against anesthesia of the skin and meat (i.e. superficial and deep anesthesia) against redness and painful swelling of the eye, against water retention and wound retention. Too large doses of medicine cause a very strong sweating, ruin the male principle (which results in death). Do not use the medicine in the summer months. against anesthesia of the skin and meat (i.e. superficial and deep anesthesia) against redness and painful swelling of the eye, against water retention and wound retention. Too large doses of medicine cause a very strong sweating, ruin the male principle (which results in death). Do not use the medicine in the summer months. To produce sweat, take the saplings, the ends of which have broken off, and cook them by letting them soak up more than ten times and remove the floating foam. Or you can cook in vinegar broth for a short time and then dry preparatively in the sun. You can also use a honey decoction. To make sweat stop, you use root pieces. " However, the indications correspond more closely to the effects of Equisetum arvense. Both plants are very similar. The characteristic hemostatic effect of ephedra is also present in Equisetum arvense. The Chinese indications are therefore to be used with caution. In Europe, the ephedrine obtained from the drug Tsaopen-Ma Huang (see p. 1261) was mainly used therapeutically until the high demand made synthesis necessary and led to the production of the racemate. The extensive literature published on the use of ephedrine cannot be reproduced here, just a few works on the most important indications of ephedrine should be mentioned: It is preferred for allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma, hay fever, urticaria and angioneurotic edema (Althausen and Schumacher, Arch. Of Intern. Med. Chicago 1927, Vol. 40, p. 851; Swanson, Journ. Of Pharm. 1929, Vol 36, p. 541; Brown, Ann. Of. Internal Medic. 1929, Vol. 3, p. 591.). ( Brown describes it as the most effective oral treatment against these affections.) For migraines based on allergies, it has been successfully prescribed by Andersen (Andersen, Medizin. Welt 1932, No. 6, p. 199.). Taterka and Hirsch (Taterka and Hirsch, Medizin. Klinik 1928, No. 42, p. 1624.) recommend it against serum sickness . Andersen and Homan (Andersen and Homan, Am. Journ. Of Med. Sc., Philadelphia 1927, Vol. 174, p. 738.) proved itself against Pertussis, Muir and Chatterjee (Muir and Chatterjee, Ind. Med. Gaz. 1928, April, p. 198.) against nerve pain in leprosy. Ephedrine was shown to be very helpful in one case of gallstone and kidney colic (Ambrose, Brit. Med. Journ. 1929, II, p. 985.). Parkhurst (Parkhurst, Brit. Med. Journ. 1930, Dec. 27) saw good results in this condition, probably due to the tonification of the sphincter by ephedrine in enuresis nocturna . In addition to the indications already mentioned, Marino (Marino, Gazz. D. Ospedali e d. Cliniche 1930, Vol. 51, No. 45.) also mentions: chronic bronchitis with emphysema, bronchiectasis, erythema, eczema, Quincke's edema, anaphylactic symptoms, dysmenorrhea , hypertrophic rhinitis, arterial hypotension, circulatory disorders and collapse. The ephedrine treatment in narcolepsy and severe somnolence gave very good results (Wilmaers, Presse méd. 1930, No. 28, p. 474; Dovle and Daniels, Journ. Of the Amer. Med. Assoc. 1931, Vol. 96, No. 17 , P. 1370 and others); as Haddor (Haddor, Lancet 1932, II, p. 420.) assumes, due to the fact that it frees sugar from the liver which then enters the circulation. The Adam-Stokes complex of symptoms also reacts favorably to ephedrine administration (Wood, Journ. Of the Amer. Med. Assoc. 1932. Vol. 98, No. 16, p. 1364.). By administering about 0.03 g every 8 hours, over longer periods, it is often possible to suppress the seizures completely for a long time - 1½-2½ years (Higley and Stecher, Brit. Med. Journ. 1934, p . 27.). Ostrowski (Ostrowski, Center Org. F. Chirurgie 1932, Vol. 60, p. 173.) saw ephedrine to have a good effect against circulatory weakness, which often occurs in children after severe burns. As a mild adrenaline-like circulatory agent, ephedrine and ephetonin (the synthetically prepared ephedrine.hydrochloricum) Siebeck (Siebeck, Münchn. Med. Wschr. 1935, No. 1, p. 17.) have proven themselves in the treatment of cardiac patients in cases where digitalis or Strophanthin could not be given. Schotte (Schotte, Presse médicale 1933, No. 70, p. 1365.) also praised ephetonine in doses of 0.05-0.1 g or ephedrine as a means of remedying excessively low blood pressure during spinal anesthesia. Fröhlich (Fröhlich, Die ärztliche Praxis 1936, H. 10, p. 250.) believes that through the prophylactic use of ephedrine, the reduction in blood pressure and the interfering with the implementation of lumbar anesthesia. U. could be prevented at all. According to Tomasson (Tomasson, Progress of Therapy 1934, No. 9, p. 567.), manic-depressive insanity in the manic stage can be achieved by quickly administering the attack by administering ephedrine and acetylcholine. The mydriatic effect of ephedrine is used in ophthalmology (Günsberg, Arch. F. Augenheilk. 1890, Vol. 22, p. 177, among others). The effect of ephedrine is very close to that of adrenaline, but it is less toxic and has the great advantage of also acting per os (Kreitmair, Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Arch. 1927, vol. 120, p. 189, vol. 143, p. 358 .), so that in some indications it is often prescribed instead of adrenaline, which is only effective for injections (Takàzs, Vienna. Klin. Wschr. 1928, II, p. 1375.). Contrary to this view, Hendrych (Hendrych, Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Arch. F. Exp. Path. U. Pharm., Vol. 182, H. 6, 1936.) showed that based on experiments at heart, ephedrine could not be equated with adrenaline is, so that it can not be used as a substitute for adrenaline in the indications of cardiac and circulatory weakness. Merck (Merck's Annual Reports 1929, p. 105.) was able to show that there is a difference in the effects between ephedrine and adrenaline by combining the two substances to prolong the duration of action, which significantly exceeds that of the individual body. It begins at the sympathetic endings, narrows the vessels and increases blood pressure (see 26.) (weaker but more persistent than adrenaline) (Meyer-Gottlieb, Exp. Pharm., P. 434.), after low doses more than after high (Rothschild, Zschr. fd ges. exp. Med. 1931, Vol. 76, p. 412.). However, the use of ephedrine as a vascular agent is very significantly restricted by what is known as ephedrine tachyphylaxis, ie the fact that, when repeated injections are made at shorter intervals, the vessels no longer respond to the new stimulus (Schaumann, Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Arch. F. Exp. Path. and Pharm., vol. 160, p. 127, 1931.). With severe vascular insufficiency that is likely to require repeated injections, the ephedrine is unable to replace the adrenaline. Ephedrine dilates the bronchi(Pollak and Robitschek, Vienna. Klin. Wschr. 1926, No. 26.) (an effect to which the application against bronchial asthma is to be attributed) and the pupils and contracts the intestine due to the excitation of the smooth muscles (Poulsson, Lehrb d. Pharmakol., p. 200.). The respiratory center is excited (Kreitmair, Münchn. Med. Wschr. 1926, No. 51.), as is the uterus (Reinitz, Skand. Arch. Physiol. 1929, Vol. 57, p. 138; Curtis, J. of Pharmacol. 1929, vol. 35, p. 333.). The blood sugar value is increased (Cannaco, Riv. Pat. Sper. 1929, Vol. 4, p. 256.). After prolonged administration, ephedrine causes insomnia (Janota, Med. Klin. 1931, No. 8, p. 279; Doyle and Daniels, Journ. Of the Amer. Med. Assoc. 1931, Vol. 96, No. 17, p. 1370.), urinary retention and constipation were also observed (Balyeat and Rinkel, Journ. Of the Amer. Med. Assoc. 1932, Vol. 98, No. 18, p. 1545.). In a 27-year-old patient, Tiefensee (Tiefensee, Münchn. Med. Wschr. 1931, No. 43, p. 1824.) saw insomnia, tachycardia and general nervous restlessness with tremor of the hands after long use of ephedrine. Dermatitis occurs occasionally (Ayres and Anderson, Journ. Of the Amer. Med. Assoc. 1931, Vol. 96, No. 17, p. 1370.). In frogs, ephedrine causes respiration and pulse to become faster and clonic cramps, then paralyzes cardiac activity and breathing and thus leads to death (Miura, Berlin. Klin. Wschr. 1887, No. 38, p. 706.). Vondráček (Vondráček, čas. Lék. Česk. 1932, p. 613.uf) carried out a large-scale experiment, which tested the effects of quinine, strychnine, yohimbine, harmine and ephedrine on the muscle in 12 soldiers. It was found that ephedrine is best used to increase therapeutic performance because of all the substances mentioned, it had the greatest effect on muscle strength as well as on the will to overcome fatigue. The plant reaches its maximum level of 1.3 % ephedrine in autumn. It also contains pseudoephedrine, methylephedrine and others. Other types of ephedra, in particular the European ephedra vulgaris rich, also contain ephedrine, but in large quantities pseudoephedrine, which has a much weaker effect, but on the other hand has a strong diuretic effect due to dilatation of the kidney vessels (cf. 7) .). In addition to ephedrine, a new alkaloid, ephedin, was found in Chinese ephedra (Chou and Mei, J. Physiol. 8, 161-166, 1934 (CC 1935).). In homeopathy, the species Ephedra vulgaris is rarely used. According to Heinigke (Heinigke, Handb. D. Hom. Medicinal Effect., P. 248.) in struma with exophthalmos and headache try. Application in practice based on literature and a question: According to its effect on the organism, Ephedra vulgaris is prescribed mainly for allergic diseases and arterial hypotension. Specifically , ephedra is given with very good results in bronchial asthma and catarrhus aestivalis. Engel , Munich, who takes Ephedra "Teep" D 2, 1 or 2 tablets four to four times a day for hay fever, particularly emphasizes that there were never any heart problems. The remedy is also popular for urticaria and Quincke's edema, but it can also be used for dietary eczema. In case of hypotension , Runck, Ludwigshafen recommends Ephedra alternating with Essentia aurea. Ephedra has also proven itself in X-ray hangovers. Ephedra is also indicated for chronic bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema, acute rhinitis and pertussis (according to L. Weissel, the ephedra "teep" is one of the best remedies that causes almost immediate secretion of mucus) and is finally used for goiter with exophthalmos, headache and rheumatism . At Basedow, you will not get ahead with the sole prescription of ephedra, but it will be useful in conjunction with Lycopus Ø. Applied plant part: Dragendorff and Clarke name branches and flowers as plant parts used. Hager speaks of the aerial, vegetative parts of the plant. According to Gessner, the leaves contain ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. According to Thoms, the drug consists of the flowering branches. Wehmer leads the branches . The European form contains ephedra. also ephedrine, but it is hardly considered for the manufacture of the remedies. If used, double the amount would be necessary. Rather, Herba Ephedrae is a drug from China that, according to Wasicky (after E. Gilg and Schürhoff), comes from Ephedra sinica Stapf or E. Shenntiana Tang. It is Tsaopen-Ma Huang (see above). The drug consists of young branches of a rod that broom-like originate from shorter or longer, woody, knotty ax pieces . There are no flowers. The parent plant contains very small amounts in spring, in autumn up to 1.3% and more, the full-fledged drug against 1% alkaloids. The "Teep" is made from this East Asian drug as long as there are no fresh plants harvested in the fall from our own crops. The HAB. gives fresh leaves and branches of Ephedra vulg. Rich. for obtaining the essence of (§ 3).

King's American Dispensatory By Harvey Wickes Felter and John Uri Lloyd 1898 - Elder Leaf

"The flowers of Sambucus canadensis, Linné"—(U. S. P.). In Eclectic medicine, the fresh inner bark is preferred. Nat. Ord.—Caprifoliaceae. COMMON NAMES: Elder, American elder. ILLUSTRATION: Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, 138. Botanical Source.—Sambucus canadensis is a common, well-known native plant, from 5 to 12 feet high, with a shrubby stem, filled with a light and porous pith, especially when young. The bark is rather scabrous and cinerous. The leaves are nearly bipinnate, and antiposed; leaflets in 3 or 4 pairs with an odd one, oblong, oval, acuminate, smooth, serrate, with the lower ones often 2 or 3-parted. Petioles smooth. Flowers numerous, white, in very large, level-topped, 5-parted cymes, and have a heavy odor. Calyx small and 5-parted; corolla 5-cleft, with segments obtuse; stamens 5; stigma obtuse, small, and sessile. The fruit consists of numerous purplish-black berries (W.). History.—Sambucus canadensis is an indigenous shrub, growing in all parts of the United States, in low, damp grounds, thickets, and waste places, flowering in June and July, and maturing its berries in September and October. S. nigra (see Related Species) is indigenous to Europe, growing in situations similar to those of the American variety. The two plants possess similar medicinal properties. The medicinal parts are the flowers, the berries, and the inner bark. Description and Chemical Composition.—The U. S. P. recognizes the flowers only, giving the following description: "The flowers, when fresh, about 5 Mm. (⅕ inch) broad, and, after drying, shrivelled; calyx superior, minutely 5-toothed; corolla originally cream-colored, after drying pale brownish -yellow, wheel-shaped and 5-lobed, with 5 stamens on the short tube; odor peculiar; taste sweetish, somewhat aromatic and bitterish. The peduncles and pedicels of the inflorescence should be rejected"—(U. S. P.). The odor of the flowers is characteristic and heavy, quite powerful when fresh, but faint when dried; they are slightly aromatic and bitterish, and impart their virtues to hot water. Boiling dissipates a volatile oil, which may be obtained by distillation with water; when cold it has the consistence of butter. Mr. F. F. Lyons (Amer. Jour. Pharm., 1892, p. 1) found the bitterness of the flowers to be due to an amorphous, yellow, glucosidal substance, soluble in chloroform. The berries have little or no odor, an acid-saccharine taste, and yield by expression a purple juice, called elder-rob, which turns a dark-lilac color with alkalies, and a scarlet with acids; acetate of lead added to the juice causes a blue deposit of its coloring substance. It contains malic acid, some citric acid, and, according to J. B. Metzger (Amer. Jour. Pharm., 1881, p. 553), a dark-brown resin, fat, sugar, gum, tannin, etc. The inner bark is whitish, with a green tint, odorless, of a saccharine taste, but subsequently bitterish, with some acrimony, and imparts its properties to water or alcohol. Mr. Charles G. Traub (Amer. Jour. Pharm., 1881, p. 392) found the bark to contain valerianic acid, volatile oil, fat, resin, tannin, sugar, coloring matter, etc. Also see quantitative analysis, by C. Otto Moosbrugger (ibid., 1895, p. 520), who found tannin, starch, alkaloids, and glucosids to be absent. Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.—Sambucus is stimulant to all of the emunctories, increasing secretion. In warm infusion, elder flowers are diaphoretic and gently stimulant; in cold infusion, they are diuretic, alterative, and cooling, and may be used in all diseases requiring such action, as in hepatic derangements of children, erysipelas, erysipelatous diseases, etc. In infusion, with maidenhair and beech-drops, they will be found very valuable in all erysipelatous diseases. The expressed juice of the berries, evaporated to the consistence of a syrup, is a valuable aperient and alterative; 1 ounce of it will purge. An infusion of the young leaf-buds is likewise purgative, and sometimes acts with violence. The flowers and expressed juice of the berries have been beneficially employed in scrofula, cutaneous diseases, syphilis, rheumatism, etc. The inner green bark is cathartic; an infusion of it in wine or cider, or the expressed juice, will purge moderately, in doses of from ½ to 1 fluid ounce; large doses produce emesis; in small ones, it proves an efficient deobstruent, promoting all the fluid secretions, and is much used in dropsy, especially that following scarlatina, and other febrile and exanthematous diseases, as well as in many chronic diseases. Specific Sambucus is largely used as an alterative where there is a tendency to unhealthy deposits in, or depravation of the tissues. The chief indication for sambucus is a fullness or oedematous condition of the parts, giving them a watery and flabby appearance. In these conditions it is a valuable agent in dropsy. Webster asserts that small doses of specific sambucus are valuable in the catarrhal nasal obstructions of infants. The juice of the root in 1 ounce doses, daily, acts as a hydragogue cathartic and diuretic, and will be found valuable in dropsical affections requiring purgation. Externally, sambucus is a valuable agent, especially for eruptions which appear upon the full, flabby, oedematous tissues as described above, and particularly when attended with abundant discharge of serum. Beaten up with lard or cream, it forms an excellent discutient ointment, which is of much value in burns, scalds, and some cutaneous diseases, such as eczema, milk-scall, old ulcers, with soft, oedematous edges and free secretion of serum, and in mucous patches, with free discharges. The dose of specific sambucus ranges from 1 to 60 drops; decoction (inner bark, 2 ounces, to water, 1 quart, boiled down to 1 pint), from 2 to 4 fluid ounces. Specific Indications and Uses.—In skin affections, when the tissues are full, flabby, and oedematous; epidermis separates and discharge of serum is abundant, forming crusts; indolent ulcers, with soft, oedematous borders; mucous patches, with free secretions; post-scarlatinal dropsy; low deposits in, or depravation of tissues. Related Species.—Sambucus nigra, Linné, is the species official in the British Pharmacopoeia. It grows in northern Africa and southern Siberia, and throughout the larger part of Europe. Sambucus nigra, or European elder, is much larger than the S. canadensis. The stem is much and irregularly, though always oppositely, branched, and of quick growth; after a year's growth, the branches become filled with a light, spongy pith, and covered with a smooth, gray bark. The bark of the stem is rough and whitish. The leaves are usually two pairs of smooth, deep-green leaflets, with an odd one, all smooth, ovate-lanceolate and serrate. The flowers are numerous, cream-colored, in large, smooth, 5-parted cymes, with a sweet but faint smell; some in each cyme are sessile. Calyx 5-cleft; corolla rotate and 5-cleft; lobes obtuse. The fruit is a globular, purplish-black berry, having reddish stalks (L.—De Cand.). H. Kramer (1846) found the bark to contain viburnic acid, proved, by Monro, to be valerianic acid; a trace of volatile oil, albumen, tannic acid, fatty matter, resin, gum, wax, sugar, starch, etc. (Chemical Gazette, May, 1846). The inner bark of Sambucus nigra is hydragogue and emeto-cathartic. It has been successfully employed in epilepsy, by taking it from branches 1 or 2 years old, scraping off the gray outer bark, and steeping 2 ounces of it in 5 ounces of cold or hot water for 48 hours. Strain, and give a wineglassful every 15 minutes when the fit is threatening; the patient fasting. Resume it every 6 or 8 days. Simon (Amer. Jour. Pharm., 1840, p. 250) states that the active principle of the bark of the root is a soft resin, which may be obtained by treating an evaporated, syrup-like, alcoholic tincture with ether, which separates an inert, hard, and takes up the soft resin; filter, and make into an extract by evaporation. Twenty grains produced vomiting 4 or 5 times, and as many, stools. Photo: Sambucus ebulus 3.Sambucus Ebulus, Linné, Dwarf elder.—The fruit of this plant is 4-seeded, and bears some resemblance to elderberries. Its taste, however, is considered more agreeable, and the fruit is sometimes employed medicinally. Lonicera caprifolium, Italian honeysuckle, Honeysuckle.—Europe. A syrup of the flowers of this well-known garden vine has been successfully employed in asthma and other respiratory disorders, and the juice of the plant is said to give relief to bee-stings. The fruit, like all species of this genus, is emeto-cathartic.

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

Botanical name: Mentha x piperita Related entry: Mentha viridis - Menthol The leaves and tops of Mentha piperita, Smith (Mentha X piperita L.) (Nat. Ord. Labiatae). Europe and the United States. Dose, 60 to 120 grains. Common Names: Peppermint. Principal Constituents.—A volatile oil (Oleum Mentha, Piperitae) and menthol. (See Menthol.) Preparations.—1. Oleum Menthae Piperitae, Oil of Peppermint. (A clear, colorless oil having the strong odor and taste of peppermint and giving a sensation of cold when air is drawn into the mouth or water is drunk; soluble in alcohol.) Dose, 1 to 10 drops. 2. Aqua Menthae Piperitae, Peppermint Water. Dose, 1 fluidrachm to 1 fluidounce. 3. Spiritus Menthae Piperitae, Spirit of Peppermint (Essence of Peppermint—10 per cent oil). Dose, 5 to 60 drops. Derivative.—Menthol. (See Menthol.) Specific Indications.—Gastrodynia, flatulent colic, difficult digestion. Action and Therapy.—External. Oil of Peppermint is rubefacient and anodyne. It is used alone or in combination with other oils for the relief of neuralgia and toothache, in both of which it is often very efficient. Its external use has been somewhat superseded by menthol, the camphoraceous body to which oil of peppermint owes most of its virtues. Still it is used largely to relieve local pain, especially that of burns and scalds. Internal. Peppermint infusion is a very grateful agent to allay nausea and vomiting, and to break up a cold. It forms a part of the well-known Neutralizing Cordial. The essence is a common and unexcelled carminative for gastrodynia and the flatulent colic of children, and is used extensively to modify the action and mask the taste of other medicines. Applied by atomization, essence of peppermint and alcohol, equal parts, frequently eases the pain of tonsillitis and gives relief in the cough of acute bronchitis and pneumonia.

A Manual Materia Medica Pharmacology. Comprising All Organic And Iinorganic Drugs Which Are Or Have Been Official In The United States Pharmacopia by David M. K. Culbreth, Pn.G., M.D. 1917 - Yarrow

Achille'a Millefo'lium, Yarrow, Milfoil.—The leaves and flower ing tops, official 18(50-1880; N. America. Perennial herb, .3-6 M. (1-2°) high, hairy; leaves lanceolate, glandular beneath, 5-25 Cm. (2-10') long, twice pinnatifid, segments toothed ; flowers Aug., corymbs, receptacle flat, chaffy, ray- florets white, pistillate; disk white, perfect; fruit achenes, chamomile odor, taste bit ter, aromatic; contains volatile oil, achil- leine, resin, tannin. Used as stimulant, tonic, emmenagogue; amenorrhcea, menor- rhagia, piles, leucorrhoea, colic, relaxed throat, sore nipples, intermittents; in fusion, expressed juice. Dos