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

Botanical name: Calendula officinalis The florets of Calendula officinalis, Linné (Nat. Ord. Compositae). Southern Europe and the Orient; largely cultivated as a garden flower. Dose, 1 to 60 grains. Common Names: Marigold, Garden Marigold, Marygold. Principal Constituent.—A tasteless yellow body, calendulin. Preparations.—1. Specific Medicine Calendula. Dose, 1 to 60 drops. For local use, from full strength to 10 per cent aqueous solutions. 2. Borated Calendula (Boric Acid, 1 ounce; Specific Medicine Calendula, 1 drachm. Mix). Freely as a dusting powder. Action and Therapy.—External. Calendula is believed to stimulate vaso-motor contraction and selectively to influence the skin and mucous tissues. After the manner of using arnica it is employed largely as a vulnerary. It is non-irritating and non-poisonous. Its advocates claim that it reduces the probability of gangrene occurring, prevents or lessens the formation of pus, and promotes the prompt healing of wounds, with the least possible cicatrization. It has been applied after the removal of epitheliomata with asserted benefit, and as an application to gangrenous and indolent ulcers, with capillary impairment, it is said to have stimulated replacement by healthy tissues. A wash (1 part of Specific Medicine Calendula to 4 parts of sterile water) has been advised as very effective to promote reconstruction or to reduce tumefaction and discharges, as indicated, in abscess cavities, burns and scalds (to lessen scarring), acne, ulcerative skin diseases, vaginitis, cervicitis, endometritis, vaginal abrasions, erosion of the os uteri, non-specific urethritis, gonorrhea, leucorrhoea, lacerated perineum, and uterine subinvolution. As a rule, in most of these disorders, its internal use has been advised at the time of using it locally. Ecchymoses are reputed to have been quickly removed by it, and it is claimed that it opposes varicoses. Diluted with rose water to suit the purpose, it may be employed in mild conjunctivitis and in some aural inflammations. In purulent otitis media the borated calendula is preferred. The powder should be lightly insufflated but not packed into the canal, so as to insure free drainage. Borated Calendula may be dusted upon excoriations and sore nipples; and an oil solution of calendula (Calendula, 1 or 2 drachms to Liquid Petrolatum, 1 fluidounce) may be sprayed into the nose for the relief of nasal catarrh, with raw and tender membranes, or irritable throat. Thomas cured an inveterate case of crural ulcer in an old man by the use of zinc oxide ointment into which was incorporated Specific Medicine Calendula. Zinc ointment alone failed to achieve results. Internal. Through its supposed action as a local and general vasomotor stimulant it has been advised internally to reinforce its local action, particularly in old ulcers, varicose veins, capillary engorgement of tissues, and chronic suppurative and catarrhal conditions. Splenic and hepatic congestion are said to have been benefited by it. While of unquestioned value in all of the local conditions named it has been much overrated, and its real medicinal worth obscured by extravagant praise.

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

Botanical:Echinacea angustifolia is a perennial that grows up to ½ m high. The linear-lanceolate and lanceolate leaves are narrowed at the base, three-nerved, undivided. The stems usually carry a single flower head, the leaves of the shell are arranged like a roof tile. The purple-red or white ray flowers are 2-2.5 cm long and longer, two to three teeth, spreading apart. The fruits bear pappus crowns. The plant prefers limescale and dry slopes. It blooms from May to August. Echinacea purpurea is very similar to the previous species. It grows slightly taller and has rough, mostly sawn leaves. The lower ones are five-nerved, oval and long petiolate, the upper oval-lanceolate. The leaves of the cover form three rows. On prairies and sandbars in the United States. west of Ohio the plant is native. It blooms in July and August. Historical and general: Echinacea has long been known as an antiseptic in American folk medicine. One day a homeopathic doctor is said to have encountered a "squaw" (Indian woman) crushing echinacea plants between stones. She told him that the vegetable pulp so obtained was used to bandage wounds that the men had hunted while hunting, and that the wounds treated in this way healed quickly. The plant should also help against snake bites. The doctor bought Echinacea and tried it, which turned out to be successful. It soon brought Echinacea into widespread use in the United States of North America. effect The remedy is well known to every doctor in America, especially in Florida, as a very good remedy for infectious and septic fever. Homeopathy also makes extensive use of it. Such was Walsh (Walsh, boarding, Med. 1903 Magazine, No. 4, p. 250.) good success with Echinacea with carbuncles, abscesses, typhoid, meningitis, puerperal fever and other infectious diseases. With regard to the treatment of metritis with echinacea, Prof. J. Wood (J. Wood, quoted from Boudard, Propagateur de l'Homoeopathie 1925.) (that of Boudard as one of the most important gynecologists in the United States) as follows: "If blood tests, particularly white blood cells, suggest suppuration, I think Echinacea (which is based on the most scientific modern research) is the remedy par excellence to to maintain the opson index and to inhibit the infiltration and multiplication of infectious agents. " Stauffer (Stauffer, Klin. Hom. Arzneimittel., P. 441.), who also found the plant to be successful in all septic processes, writes that, especially when it comes to burns, "it magically takes away pain, makes you sleep, and heals (internally and accelerated externally). " Dahlke (Dahlke, Ges. Medicament., P. 116.) recommends use for deep nutritional disorders with suspected malignant diseases. Arnulphy (Arnulphy, Propagateur de l'Homoeopathie 1925, No. 3.) describes Echinacea as a valuable tool in the fight against all types of septemia, especially the most pronounced toxemia. According to him, Echinacea seems to have a specific effect on the appendix, since he was able to use it successfully in at least 60 cases of appendicitis. If furunculosis is a very large lump with extensive, deep tissue inflammation, or if the inflammation, as happens sometimes with the furuncles of the nose and lip, spreads to the neighboring veins and puts the patient at risk of life through thrombosis and septic seeding, Echinacea (5 drops every two hours on a little water and at the same time external to envelopes) is to be used according to Ritter (Ritter, Ther. d. Gegenw. 1936, H. 10, p. 460.). Haines (Haines, cit. B. Donner, Allgemeine hom. Ztg. 1931, p. 208.) further reports that in his extensive practice he often prescribed carbuncle Echinacea (every 3 hours) (externally Liberadol). With this type of treatment, he should only have incised a carbuncle once. For diabetic gangrene, Tellier (Tellier, L'Homoeopathie Moderne, 1935.) recommends Echinacea D 3, every two hours, whereby urine sugar "should disappear with the certainty of an experiment". Even after a message I received personally, the disappearance of acetone from the urine was observed in numerous cases in people with diabetes mellitus after administration of Echinacea "Teep" 0. The root contains essential oil (dried 1.25%, fresh 1.5%, the main component is a noncyclic tetrahydrosesquiterpene C 15 H28) (Bischoff, J. Amer. Journ. Pharm. Assoc. 1924, No. 13, p. 898 ( CC 1925).), Resin (1.9%), inulin, glucose, levulose, phenolic acid C9H10O 5 . Mp 207 (mainly trioxyphenylpropionic acid), betaine (0.1%), glycosidamyl alcohol (0.3%) (Heyl and Hart, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 1915, No. 37, p. 1769 (CC 1915) .). Echinacea is said to stimulate salivation in larger doses (Lloyd, Pharmaceutical Review 1904, No. 1, p. 9). Echinacea purpurea was found to be as effective as E. angustifolia. Application in practice based on literature and a question: Echinacea is considered to be a very good antiseptic, which has proven itself particularly well internally, especially in septic and pyemic processes +) . Specifically, it is prescribed for: septic fever with chills, especially scarlet fever, diphtheria, angina tons . (here the inner presentation is supported by envelopes, gurgling, Echinacea 30 drops in half a cup of hot water, and brushing with pure Echinacin), and typhoid abdominalis, for appendicitis,Peritonitis, lymphangitis (hot echinacea envelopes are used for swelling of the glands - like 30 drops of the tincture on a ½ cup of water as above), and gallbladder infection with septic symptoms and severe vaccination and blood poisoning. In several cases of septicemia after postpartum fever, which had already been given up, Kleine, Wuppertal, by presenting Echinacea Ø , managed to achieve 10 drops per hour over a period of two days, and the fever quickly subsided to normal temperature. Unterwaldtreports on a 40 year old patient with severe ulcer molle. After the first intragluteal echinacea injection, the suppuration disappeared, after the second the rest of the inflammation. A case of actinomycosis could also be cured by such injections. Echinacea is also used internally (by os or as an injection) and externally (in the form of brushing, application of the ointment, etc.) in all suppurations with a tendency to form abscesses (in the case of skin suppurations, the ointment applied too thickly can cause exacerbation), in boils, panaritias, Gangrene (also of diabetics), phlegmon, erysipelas, ulcers, especially ulcus cruris, ulcus ventriculi and duodeni (here according to Görgens internally with bolus alba), insect bites, toothache after tooth extraction with infection and poorly healing woundsapplied. Echinacea is particularly useful for first to third degree burn wounds. In order to achieve the fastest pain relief and healing without distorting scars, Brand, Kolberg, here , makes moist envelopes with Echinacea Ø (40 drops in ¼ liter of water), later Echinacea-Lanolin 10% is used, in addition Echinacea Ø-D 1 is prescribed internally . Fire describes the pain-relieving effect as superior to any bandage. William, Danzig, praises Echinacea for external use in very severe urticaria. Outside the scope of the above-mentioned indications, the remedy is occasionally used against heart failure, diabetes mellitus, gastritis, vomiting diarrhea, flatulence and after strength, Pfeddersheim, for arteriosclerosis. Preferred changing agents are: Sulfur, Lachesis, Silicea, Mercur. cyan., Hepar sulf., Belladonna and Bryonia. +) Examples of use: (After Baumbach, "Biological healing art" 1933, p. 104.) I. An 11-year-old girl had had chronic root conduction for many weeks . Gums were raised from the canine to the molar and painful. The Parulis did not ripen despite hot rinses. Regulation: Rp .: Myristica sebifera D 3 dil. 8.0 Echinacea Ø 1.0 Phytolacca decandra D 3 dil. 10.0 Mds: 7-8 drops per hour on a little waterto take until spontaneous pus eruption occurs. The next day there was spontaneous emptying of the pus, which immediately brought relief to the child. Hepar sulfuris calcareum D 3 (to take one pea-sized quantum dry each) was then prescribed every two hours. The following day, the following prescription was prescribed: Rp .: Silicea D 6 Potassium chloratum D 6 trit. aa 5.0 Mds: To take one point of the knife fully dry in the morning and in the afternoon. (According to Wood, quoted by Boudard, Propagateur de l'Homoeopathie ["Generally hom. Ztg." 1926].) II. I was called as Consilarius to the bed of a 35-year-old Multipara, who had been inserted into the uterus 10 days earlier. The woman had lost a lot of blood and membrane debris had also gone off. The doctor (who was not the culprit) had done a claw-out without anesthesia because of the uterus was not empty and had put an iodoformega strip. The woman then got chills and fever. The lower abdomen was painful, there was severe congestion in the vessels, the woman was very nervous and feared that she would die. The previous treatment was stopped. I had the head of the bed raised to empty the peritoneum exudateeffect in the Douglas, and make hot applications on the abdomen. Echinacea was given internally: 1 gran (= 0.0648 g) on ​​½ glass of water, 2 teaspoons full every two hours. The patient also received hot rinses. With this treatment, the temperature became normal within 24 hours and the woman healed completely. Applied plant part: The Indians have long used the root as a remedy. Lloyd, Thoms, Hager mention the root. Clarke uses the whole fresh flowering plant. The HAB. can use the fresh flowering plant with root (§ 3). The "Teep" is made from fresh roots dug in autumn and flowers harvested in summer. The dried plant is almost ineffective.

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

Botanical name: Glycyrrhiza glabra The dried rhizome and roots of Glycyrrhiza glabra typica, Regel et Herder (Spanish Licorice), or of Glycyrrhiza glabra glandulifera, Regel et Herder (Russian Licorice), (Nat. Ord. Leguminosae). Southern Europe and western Asia; cultivated. Dose, 5 to 60 grains. Common Names: Licorice, Licorice Root, (1) Spanish Licorice Root, (2) Russian Licorice Root. Principal Constituents.—The sweet glucoside glycyrrhizin (C24H36O9), asparagin, glycyramarin and an acid resin. Preparations.—1. Specific Medicine Glycyrrhiza. Dose, 5 to 60 drops. 2. Fluidextractum Glycyrrhizae, Fluidextract of Glycyrrhiza. Dose, 30 drops. Derivative: Glycyrrhizinum Ammoniatum, Ammoniated Glycyrrhizin. Very sweet, odorless, dark-brown or red-brown scales; soluble in alcohol or water. It is derived from glycyrrhiza and combined with ammonia. Dose, 1 to 8 grains. Action and Therapy.—Glycyrrhiza root is demulcent, laxative, and expectorant. It acts upon mucous surfaces, lessening irritation and relieving coughs, catarrhs, and irritation of the urinary tract. The powdered extract is sometimes used to give solidity to pills, and the powdered root as a dusting powder for the same. The fluidextract is an agreeable flavoring agent for other medicines and soothing to irritated bronchial surfaces. The bitterness of cascara, quinine, aloes, quassia, the acridity of senega, guaiac, and the taste of ammonium chloride and sodium salicylate are more or less masked by the fluidextract. Licorice root is an ingredient of Compound Licorice Powder. (See Senna).

Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants, 1936, was written by A. R. Harding. - Oregon Grape

Mahonia repens DRUG NAME—Berberis. OTHER COMMON NAMES—Rocky Mountain grape, holly-leaved barberry, California barberry, trailing Mahonia. HABITAT AND RANGE —This shrub is native in woods in rich soil among rocks from Colorado to the Pacific Ocean, but is especially abundant in Oregon and northern California DESCRIPTION OF PLANT—Oregon grape is a low-growing shrub, resembling somewhat the familiar Christmas holly of the Eastern states, and, in fact, was first designated as "mountain-holly" by members of the Lewis and Clark expedition on their way through the western country. It belongs to the barberry family (Berberidaceae), and grows about 2 to 6 feet in height, the branches sometimes trailing. The leaves consist of from 5 to 9 leaflets, borne in pairs, with an odd leaflet at the summit. They are from 2 to 3 inches long and about 1 inch wide, evergreen, thick, leathery, oblong or oblong ovate in outline, smooth and shining above. the margins provided with thorny spines or teeth. The numerous small yellow flowers appear in April or May and are borne in erect, clustered heads. The fruit consists of a cluster of blue or bluish purple berries, having a pleasant taste, and each containing from three to nine seeds. OTHER SPECIES —While Berberis aquifolium is generally designated as the source of Oregon grape root, other species of Berberis are met with in the market under the name grape root, and their use is sanctioned by the United States Pharmacopoeia. The species most commonly collected with Berberis aquifolium is B. nervosa Pursh, which is also found in woods from California northward to Oregon and Washington. This is 9 to 17 inches in height, with a conspicuously jointed stem and 11 to 17 bright-green leaflets. Another species of Berberis, B. pinnata Lag., attains a height of from a few inches to a feet, with from 5 to 9, but sometimes more, leaflets, which are shining above and paler beneath. This resembles aquifolium very closely and is often mistaken for it, but it is said that it has not been used by the medical profession, unless in local practice. The root also is about the same size as that of aquifolium, while the root of nervosa is smaller. Some works speak of Berberis repens Lindl. as another species often collected with aquifolium, but in the latest botanical manuals no such species is recognized, B. repens being given simply as a synonym for B. aquifolium. DESCRIPTION OF ROOTSTOCK—The rootstock and roots of Oregon grape are more or less knotty, in irregular pieces of varying lengths, and about an inch or less in diameter, with brownish bark and hard and tough yellow wood, showing a small pith and narrow rays. Oregon grape root has a very bitter taste and very slight odor. COLLECTION, PRICES AND USES—Oregon grape root is collected in autumn and brings from 10 to 12 cents a pound. The bark should not be removed from the rootstocks, as the Pharmacopoeia directs that such roots be rejected. This root has long been used in domestic practice thruout the West as a tonic and blood purifier and is now official in the United States Pharmacopoeia. The berries are used in making preserves and cooling drinks.

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

Botanical name: Scutellaria lateriflora The fresh green herb of Scutellaria lateriflora, Linné (Nat. Ord. Labiatae). Common in damp situations throughout the United States. Dose, 5 to 30 grains. Common Names: Scullcap, Skullcap, Madweed. Principal Constituents.—A volatile and a fixed oil and an unnamed, bitter, crystallizable glucoside. Preparation.—Specific Medicine Scutellaria. Dose, 5 to 30 drops. Specific Indications.—Nervousness attending or following illness, or from mental or physical exhaustion, or teething; nervousness with muscular excitation; tremors; subsultus tendinum; hysteria, with inability to control muscular action; functional heart disorders of a purely nervous type, with intermittent pulse. Action and Therapy.—Scutellaria is calmative to the nervous and muscular systems and possesses feeble tonic properties. By controlling nervous irritability and muscular incoordination it gives rest and permits sleep. It may be exhibited to advantage during acute and chronic illness to maintain nervous balance, control muscular twitching and tremors, and is sometimes effectual in subsultus tendinum during grave prostrating fevers. Too much, however, must not be expected from it in the latter condition; nor can it be expected to aid much in delirium tremens, and not at all in epilepsy and paralysis agitans, in both of which it has been injudiciously advised. It appears to be most useful in chorea when reinforced by the addition of macrotys and valerian; in restlessness following prolonged sickness; and in functional heart disorders of a purely nervous character, with intermittent pulse whether accompanied or not by hysterical excitement. When insomnia is due to worry, or nervous irritability or even exhaustion, relief may be expected from it. It once had a great reputation as a cure for hydrophobia, based upon the reports of New Jersey physicians, a claim which time has totally failed to sustain.

King's American Dispensatory By Harvey Wickes Felter and John Uri Lloyd 1898 - St John’s Wort

Botanical Source.—This plant has a perennial, woody, tufted, fusiform, tortuous, somewhat creeping root. Its stem is 2-edged, branchiate, erect above, curved below, branched, and from 1 to 2 feet high. The leaves are very numerous, elliptical or ovate, obtuse, opposite, entire, marked with pellucid dots, of a pale-green color, from 6 to 10 lines long, one-third as wide, the ramial leaves being much smaller. The flowers are numerous, of a bright-yellow color, and borne in dense, forked, terminal panicles. The calyx is persistent; and the sepals are 5, acute, lanceolate, connected at the base, with 6 dark-colored glands. Petals 5, twice as long as the sepals, ovate, obtuse, yellow, dotted, and streaked with black or dark purple. Stamens numerous, united at base, divided into 3 sets with small anthers. Styles 3 short, erect; stigmas small. The capsule is roundish, 3-celled and 3-valved; the seeds numerous, small, and roundish. The whole herb is dark-green, with a powerful scent when rubbed, and stain the fingers dark-purple, from the great abundance of colored essential oil (L.—W.). History and Chemical Composition.—St. John's wort is an herb abundantly growing in this country and Europe, and proving exceedingly annoying to farmers. The flowers appear from June to August. It has a peculiar, terebinthine odor, and a balsamic, bitterish, rather astringent taste. It imparts its properties to water, alcohol, ether, oils, or alkaline solutions. Other species of Hypericum are possessed of medicinal properties, notably the Hypericum sarothra, Michaux, pine-weed or orange-grass, growing in sands, which has aperient qualities. An allied plant, the Ascyrum crux-Andreae, Linné, or St. Andrew's cross, has been locally applied to glandular indurations and swellings. Hypericum contains a volatile oil, a resin, tannic acid and coloring matter (Blair, Amer. Jour. Pharm., Vol. II, p. 23). Pectin is also present. The red coloring principle is a resinous body known as hypericum red. The odor of this principle is similar to that of the flowers. Karl Dieterich (Pharm. Centralh., 1891, p. 683) macerated the flowers with 90 per cent alcohol, and obtained a tincture of a rich red color, containing a mixture of two coloring matters, a yellow principle soluble in petroleum ether, and a red coloring matter, insoluble in this solvent. The red principle, in solid form, was a resinous mass of a green lustre, soluble in alcohol with red color, and resembling carthamin red; insoluble in fatty, but soluble in ethereal oils. Acids dissolve it with red, alkalies, chloroform, benzol and carbon disulphide with green color. The substance does not possess any advantage over other indicators in alkalimetry. When exposed to air in thin layers, it turns greenish at once. The aqueous extractive matter of the flowers contains calcium, magnesium, potassium, and oxalic, sulphuric and carbonic acids. Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.—Astringent, sedative, and diuretic. Used in suppression of the urine, chronic urinary affections, in diarrhoea, dysentery, worms, jaundice, menorrhagia, hysteria, nervous affections with depression, hemoptysis, and other hemorrhages. Hypericum has undoubted power over the nervous system, and particularly the spinal cord. Homoeopathic physicians regard it as the arnica of that structure. It is used in injuries of the spine and in lacerated and punctured wounds of the limbs to prevent tetanic complications and to relieve the excruciating pains of such injuries (Scudder). It is highly valued by Webster in spinal irritation when, upon gentle pressure upon the spinous processes of the vertebrae, burning pain is elicited. Throbbing of the whole body in nervous individuals, fever being absent, is said to be a good indication for hypericum. The usual method of administration is: Rx Tincture of hypericum, gtt. x to xxx; aqua, fl℥iv. Mix. Sig. Teaspoonful every 1 or 2 hours. Externally, hypericum may be used in fomentation, or used as an ointment for dispelling hard tumors, caked breasts, bruises, ecchymosis, swellings, ulcers, etc. The blossoms, infused in sweet oil or bear's oil, by means of exposure to the sun, make a fine, red balsamic ointment for wounds, ulcers, swellings, tumors, etc. A very excellent ointment for tumors, ecchymosed conditions, etc., may be made by adding to 1 pound of lard, ½ pound of the recent tops and flowers of St. John's wort, and ½ pound of fresh stramonium leaves; bruise all together, expose to a gentle heat for an hour, and strain. Dose of the powder, from ½ to 2 drachms; of the infusion, from 1 to 2 fluid ounces. The dose of the strong tincture is from ½ to 10 minims. Ɣ The saturated tincture of the fresh herb (℥viii to alcohol, 76 per cent, Oj) is nearly as valuable as that of arnica for bruises, etc., and may be substituted for it in many instances. Specific Indications and Uses.—Spinal injuries, shocks, or concussions; throbbing of the whole body without fever; spinal irritation, eliciting tenderness and burning pain upon slight pressure; spinal injuries, and lacerated and punctured wounds of the extremities, with excruciating pain; hysteria; locally to wounds, contusions, etc.