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HAMAMELIS. WitchhazelX THE LEAVES, BARK AND TWIGS OF HAMAMELIS VIRGINIANA, LINNé (NAT. ORD. HAMAMELIDACEAE), COLLECTED IN THE AUTUMN. COMMON IN THE UNITED STATES. DOSE, 5 TO 60 GRAINS. COMMON NAMES.—WITCH-HAZEL, SNAPPING HAZELNUT, WINTERBLOOM. PRINCIPAL CONSTITUENTS.—A BITTER BODY, TANNIN, AND A VOLATILE OIL. PREPARATIONS.-1. AQUA HAMAMELIDIS, HAMAMELIS WATER, (DISTILLATE OF HAMAMELIS, DISTILLED WITCH-HAZEL, DISTILLED EXTRACT OF WITCH-HAZEL). DOSE, 5 DROPS TO 2 FLUIDRACHMS. 2. SPECIFIC MEDICINE HAMAMELIS. DOSE, 5 TO 60 DROPS. SPECIFIC INDICATIONS.—VENOUS DEBILITY, WITH RELAXED AND FULL TISSUES; PALLID MUCOSA OR OCCASIONALLY DEEP RED FROM VENOUS ENGORGEMENT, OR DEEP BLUE FROM VENOUS STASIS; EXCESSIVE MUCOUS FLOW, WITH VENOUS RELAXATION; PASSIVE HEMORRHAGES; PREHEMORRHAGIC STATES, WITH VENOUS FULLNESS; VARICOSES; HEMORRHOIDS WITH WEIGHT AND FULLNESS; RECTAL PROLAPSE; DULL ACHING PAIN IN PELVIS, GENITALIA, OR RECTUM, WITH PERINEAL RELAXATION AND FULLNESS; RELAXED OR ENGORGED AND PAINFUL SORE THROAT; GASTRO-INTESTINAL IRRITABILITY, WITH VENOUS WEAKNESS AND MUCOUS OR MUCO-BLOODY PASSAGES. LOCALLY TO INFLAMED, ULCERATED OR WOUNDED SKIN OR MUCOSA, ESPECIALLY WHERE VENOUS CIRCULATION IS DEBILITATED; CONTUSIONS, BRUISES, AND MUSCULAR SORENESS FROM EXERTION OR EXPOSURE. ACTION AND THERAPY.—EXTERNAL. WITCH-HAZEL BARK AND ITS FLUID PREPARATIONS ARE ASTRINGENT. THE DISTILLATE AND THE SPECIFIC MEDICINE ARE SEDATIVE AND SLIGHTLY ASTRINGENT. THE LATTER TWO FORM AGREEABLY GRATEFUL AND SOOTHING APPLICATIONS TO THE SKIN AND MUCOUS SURFACE IN IRRITATED AND INFLAMED CONDITIONS AND WHERE VENOUS RELAXATION IS PRESENT. THE SPECIFIC MEDICINE IS AN ELEGANT AND HEAVY DISTILLATE, FELTER’S MATERIA MEDICA - PAGE 212 CARRYING A LARGE PROPORTION OF THE OIL, AS COMPARED TO THE ORDINARY DISTILLATE, AND IS MUCH TO BE PREFERRED WHERE A BLAND AND SOOTHING YET ASTRINGENT EFFECT IS REQUIRED. WHERE MORE ALCOHOLIC STIMULATION IS PERMITTED OR DESIRED THE ORDINARY DISTILLATE MAY BE USED. AS A RULE, THE SPECIFIC MEDICINE IS BEST FOR USE UPON MUCOUS, AND THE DISTILLATE UPON THE CUTANEOUS SURFACES. WITCH-HAZEL DISTILLATES ARE SPLENDID APPLICATIONS FOR SPRAINS, CONTUSIONS, WOUNDS AND INFLAMED SWELLINGS, AND FOR SUNBURN, TAN, FRECKLES, AND DILATATION OF THE CAPILLARIES OF THE SKIN. THEY ARE COOLING AND RELIEVE SMARTING AND PAIN. USED ALONE OR COMBINED WITH AN EQUAL QUANTITY OF BAY RUM THEY FORM AN ELEGANT FACE WASH TO REMOVE EXCESS OF SOAP AND HEAL ABRASIONS AFTER SHAVING. WITCH-HAZEL IS ONE OF THE MOST COMFORTING APPLICATIONS FOR PAINFUL HEMORRHOIDS. IT MAY BE USED ICE COLD OR HOT, AS PREFERRED. APPLIED TO THE TENDER PARTS AFTER THE PARTURIENT TOILET, IT REMOVES SORENESS OF THE TISSUES FROM CHILDBIRTH. RUBBED UPON THE SKIN, OR APPLIED BY MEANS OF COMPRESSES, IT IS AN EFFICIENT LOTION FOR MUSCULAR SORENESS AND ACHING AFTER SEVERE EXERTION; FROM COLD, EXPOSURE, OR WHEN DUE TO BRUISES AND STRAINS. ITS USE SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED WITH GENTLE MASSAGE. COMPRESSES WETTED WITH WITCHHAZEL GIVE MARKED RELIEF IN ACUTE CUTANEOUS INFLAMMATIONS, CHAFING, AND ESPECIALLY IN MAMMITIS. INCISED WOUNDS, RAGGED CUTS FROM GLASS OR TIN, BARBED WIRE INJURIES, AND CRUSHED FINGERS ARE QUICKLY RELIEVED OF PAIN AND HEAL RAPIDLY WHEN THE FOLLOWING IS APPLIED: RX ECHAFOLTA, 1/2 FLUIDOUNCE; ASEPSIN, 15 GRAINS; SPECIFIC MEDICINE HAMAMELIS AND WATER, ENOUGH TO MAKE 4 FLUIDOUNCES. MIX. APPLY UPON GAUZE. A SIMILAR PREPARATION, WITH BUT TWO DRACHMS OF THE ECHAFOLTA, OR THE DISTILLATE WITH MENTHOL, MAKES A GOOD DRESSING FOR BURNS AND SCALDS. GLYCERIN AND HAMAMELIS, EQUAL PARTS, OR EQUAL PARTS OF SPECIFIC MEDICINE HAMAMELIS AND LLOYD'S COLORLESS HYDRASTIS GIVE EXCELLENT RESULTS IN IRRITATION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE AURAL CANAL DUE TO INSPISSATED CERUMEN, OR TO EFFORTS TO REMOVE THE LATTER. SPRAYED UPON THE THROAT THE SPECIFIC MEDICINE OR THE DISTILLATE, SUITABLY DILUTED, IS A USEFUL AND SEDATIVE ASTRINGENT FOR ANGRY AND DEEP RED SORETHROATS, WITH RELAXATION OF MEMBRANES; OR IN PHARYNGITIS, FAUCITIS, AND TONSILLITIS, WITH HYPERAEMIA OR CONGESTION. THE SPECIFIC MEDICINE IS ESPECIALLY SOOTHING AND ASTRINGENT IN CONGESTIVE NASAL CATARRH. FEW LOCAL WASHES GIVE GREATER RELIEF IN THE ANGINA OF SCARLET FEVER THAN THOSE FELTER’S MATERIA MEDICA - PAGE 213 OF WHICH WITCHHAZEL FORMS A PART. THEY RELIEVE PAIN, CLEANSE THE PARTS, AND CONSTRINGE THE RELAXED TISSUES AND DILATED VESSELS. IT MAY ALSO BE ADDED TO LOCAL WASHES FOR USE IN DIPHTHERIA. TOGETHER WITH COLORLESS HYDRASTIS, OR OTHER NON-ALCOHOLIC HYDRASTIS PREPARATIONS, WITH OR WITHOUT A GRAIN OF ALUM OR OF ZINC SULPHATE, IT IS A MOST EFFECTIVE COLLYRIUM FOR ACUTE CONJUNCTIVITIS, WITH DILATED CONJUNCTIVAL VESSELS. ESPECIALLY IS IT EFFECTIVE IN VERNAL CONJUNCTIVITIS. THE SAME COMBINATIONS ARE EXCEEDINGLY USEFUL AS AN INJECTION IN GONORRHEA, AFTER THE ACUTE SYMPTOMS HAVE SUBSIDED AND A CATARRHAL STATE HAS SUPERVENED. INTERNAL. HAMAMELIS HAS AN IMPORTANT TONIC EFFECT UPON VENOUS DEBILITY, ACTING UPON THE COATS OF THE VEINS THROUGHOUT THE BODY. UNLIKE SOME VASCULAR REMEDIES ITS ACTION IS NOT MERELY LOCAL, BUT EXTENDS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE VENOUS SYSTEM. IT IS THEREFORE A REMEDY OF MUCH VALUE IN VARICOSES, HEMORRHOIDS, AND PASSIVE HEMORRHAGES. WHEN INDICATED, THE TISSUES ARE PALLID AND RELAXED, AND IN SOME INSTANCES DEEP RED, DUE TO VENOUS ENGORGEMENT. THERE IS A SENSE OF FULLNESS OR THICKENING AND WEIGHT AND CONGESTION. THESE ARE ESPECIALLY PROMINENT IN THE TYPE OF HEMORRHOIDS BENEFITED BY HAMAMELIS. IT IS OF SOME VALUE IN OOZING OF BLOOD FROM THE MUCOSA, IN PASSIVE BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE, LUNGS, AND STOMACH, BUT IS A BETTER REMEDY FOR THE VENOUS RELAXATION THAT PRECEDES THESE HEMORRHAGES AND WHICH RENDERS THEIR OCCURRENCE EASY. IT IS OF LESS VALUE IN HEMOPTYSIS THAN LYCOPUS, AND IS ADAPTED TO SUCH CASES AS ARE BENEFITED BY GERANIUM AND ERIGERON. HAMAMELIS IS A DECIDEDLY USEFUL REMEDY IN CONGESTIVE CONDITIONS WITH MARKED TISSUE DEBILITY. IT SHOULD BE GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL IN CONGESTION OF THE OVARIES, WITH DULL ACHING PAIN AND SENSE OF WEIGHT AND FULLNESS; IN CHRONIC CONGESTIVE CONDITIONS OF THE UTERUS, WITH SOFT AND FLABBY CERVIX AND PATULOUS OS; IN UTERINE SUBINVOLUTION; AND IN LEUCORRHEA, WITH SPONGINESS OF THE VAGINA AND TENDENCY TO PROLAPSUS OF THE WOMB; AND IN PROLAPSE OF THE RECTUM, WITH VENOUS FULLNESS. IT FREQUENTLY RELIEVES IN VARICOCELE, WITH SENSE OF WEIGHT AND DRAGGING. HAMAMELIS SHOULD ALSO BE GIVEN IN NASAL CATARRH AND OZAENA, WITH CONGESTION AND TENDENCY TO RECURRING EPISTAXIS, AND THICKENED AND RELAXED MUCOSA, WITH ABUNDANT MUCOUS OR MUCO-PURULENT DISCHARGE; AND IN CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE FAUCES, PHARYNX, AND LARYNX WITH SLUGGISH VENOUS CIRCULATION, AND GREATLY RELAXED TISSUES. FOR CHRONIC FELTER’S MATERIA MEDICA - PAGE 214 DIARRHEAL, AND SOMETIMES ACUTE BOWEL DISORDERS, AS CHOLERA INFANTUM AND DYSENTERY, IT IS PROMPTLY CURATIVE WHEN MUCH MUCUS IS PASSED, AND ESPECIALLY IF THE PASSAGES ARE TINGED WITH BLOOD. IN ALL CASES IN WHICH IT IS INDICATED THERE IS DEBILITY OF THE VENOUS CIRCULATION AND RELAXATION OF THE MUCOSA; AND WHERE POSSIBLE IT SHOULD BE USED CONCURRENTLY INTERNALLY AND LOCALLY. SCILLA. THE INNER, FLESHY SCALES OF THE BULB OF THE WHITE VARIETY OF URGINEA MARITIMA (LINNé), BAKER (NAT. ORD. LILIACEAE), CUT INTO FRAGMENTS AND CAREFULLY DRIED. COAST OF MEDITERRANEAN BASIN AND IN PORTUGAL AND FRANCE. DOSE, 1 TO 3 GRAINS; AVERAGE, 1 1/2 GRAINS. COMMON NAMES: SQUILL, SQUILLS, SEA ONION. PRINCIPAL CONSTITUTENTS.—SCILLITOXIN, THE MOST ACTIVE PRINCIPLE, INSOLUBLE IN WATER, SOLUBLE IN ALCOHOL, AND A HEART POISON; SCILLIPICRIN, A BITTER BODY, SPARINGLY SOLUBLE IN WATER; SCILLIN, SOLUBLE IN WATER, CAUSING VOMITING AND NUMBNESS; AND A BITTER GLUCOSIDE SCILLAIN. PREPARATIONS.—1. SPECIFIC MEDICINE SQUILL. DOSE, 1 TO 5 DROPS. 2. ACETUM SCILLAE, VINEGAR OF SQUILL (SQUILL, 10 PER CENT). DOSE, 5 TO 20 MINIMS. 3. SYRUPUS SCILLAE, SYRUP OF SQUILL. DOSE, 10 TO 60 MINIMS. 4. SYRUPUS SCILLAE COMPOSITUS, COMPOUND SYRUP OF SQUILL (HIVE SYRUP). (CONTAINS FLUIDEXTRACTS OF SQUILL AND SENEGA, AND ANTIMONY AND POTASSIUM TARTRATE.) DOSE, 5 TO 40 MINIMS. 5. TINCTURA SCILLAE, TINCTURE OF SQUILL (SQUILL, 10 PER CENT). DOSE, 5 TO 30 MINIMS. SPECIFIC INDICATIONS.—CHRONIC COUGH WITH SCANTY, TENACIOUS EXPECTORATION; DROPSY DEPENDENT UPON A GENERAL ASTHENIC CONDITION AND WITHOUT FEVER; SCANTY, HIGH-COLORED URINE, WITH SENSE OF PRESSURE IN THE BLADDER; RENAL OVERACTIVITY WITH INABILITY TO RETAIN THE URINE. ACTION AND TOXICOLOGY.—SQUILL IS A POWERFUL DRUG ACTING MUCH LIKE DIGITALIS UPON THE HEART MUSCLE, AND PROBABLY WITH GREATER FORCE UPON THE PERIPHERAL VESSELS, INCREASING ARTERIAL TENSION. IT IS A VIOLENT GASTROINTESTINAL IRRITANT AND IT DISTURBS THE STOMACH MORE THAN DOES DIGITALIS. EVEN SMALL DOSES CAUSE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; AND SOME INDIVIDUALS ARE SO SUSCEPTIBLE TO ITS ACTION THAT IT CANNOT BE TAKEN BY THEM IN ANY DOSE. SQUILL LIKEWISE STIMULATES THE KIDNEYS TO INCREASED FELTER’S MATERIA MEDICA - PAGE 402 DIURESIS, BOTH BY ACTING UPON THE EPITHELIAL CELLS AND BY INCREASING THE BLOOD PRESSURE WITHIN THOSE ORGANS. BRONCHIAL SECRETION IS INCREASED BY IT. FRESH SQUILL, WHEN RUBBED UPON THE SKIN, IS RUBEFACIENT, AND IF THE SURFACE BE DENUDED IT MAY BE ABSORBED WITH POISONOUS CONSEQUENCES. LARGE DOSES OF SQUILL ARE VIOLENTLY POISONOUS, CAUSING SEVERE AND PAINFUL VOMITING AND PURGING, GASTRO-INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION, DECREASED, AND SOMETIMES BLOODY AND ALBUMINOUS URINE, WITH STRANGURY, AND NOT INFREQUENTLY COMPLETE SUPPRESSION DUE TO THE ACUTE NEPHRITIS INDUCED. DULLNESS AND STUPOR OR INTERMITTENT PARALYSIS AND CONVULSIONS ENSUE. DEATH USUALLY TAKES PLACE IN FROM TEN TO TWENTYFOUR HOURS. SOME CONTEND THAT SQUILL ACTS MORE POWERFULLY UPON THE HEART MUSCLE THAN FOXGLOVE, AND THAT BY OVERSTIMULATION WITH EXCESSIVE DOSES CARDIAC ARRYTHMIA AND HEARTBLOCK MAY BE INDUCED. SQUILL, THEREFORE, WHILE USUALLY CAUSING DEATH BY GASTRO-ENTERITIS, MAY ESTABLISH A FATAL NEPHRITIS, OR CAUSE A SUDDEN STOPPAGE OF THE HEART. THERAPY.—SQUILL IS A STIMULATING DIURETIC AND EXPECTORANT, AND IF GIVEN IN SMALL DOSES WHEN THERE IS GENERAL ATONY AND SPECIAL LACK OF TONE IN THE RENAL AND RESPIRATORY TRACTS IT IS A GOOD MEDICINE. IT MUST BE USED, HOWEVER, WITH CARE AND JUDGMENT. IF THERE IS THE LEAST REASON TO SUSPECT, OR EVIDENCE TO SHOW, UNDUE RENAL IRRITATION OR INFLAMMATION ITS USE SHOULD BE STOPPED AT ONCE. IN VERY SMALL DOSES SQUILL ALLAYS IRRITATION OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES AND LESSENS EXCESSIVE SECRETION. IT WAS AT ONE TIME VERY LARGELY EMPLOYED FOR THE ELIMINATION OF DROPSICAL EFFUSION; AND STILL IS USED FOR THE ABSORPTION AND REMOVAL OF PLEURAL, PERICARDIAL, AND ESPECIALLY PERITONEAL EFFUSION, BUT WITH MORE CARE THAN FORMERLY. IN LARGE ASCITIC COLLECTIONS IN CURABLE CONDITIONS PARACENTESIS IS A MORE RATIONAL MEASURE THAN LONG AND HARSH MEDICATION BY DRASTIC RENAL HYDRAGOGUES. SQUILL IS ONE OF THE MOST CERTAIN REMEDIES FOR DROPSY OF CARDIAC ORIGIN, OR FROM CONGESTION (NOT INFLAMMATION) OF THE KIDNEYS; AND IS PROPORTIONATELY LESS VALUABLE WHERE DEPENDENT UPON STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE RENAL GLANDS. NEVERTHELESS IT FREQUENTLY IS USED IN CHRONIC NEPHRITIS TO EXCITE THE SURVIVING CELLS TO ACTIVITY AND THUS INCREASE THE OUTPUT OF URINE. WHEN RENAL DROPSY DEPENDS UPON GENERAL ATONY OF THE SYSTEM-THE KIDNEYS INCLUDED AND THE DISORDER IS ONE OF FUNCTIONAL WEAKNESS, SQUILL MAY BE USED WITH GOOD EFFECT. ITS DIURETIC ACTION IS INCREASED BY DIGITALIS AND THE ALKALINE DIURETICS, NOTABLY FELTER’S MATERIA MEDICA - PAGE 403 ACETATE AND CITRATE OF POTASSIUM. SQUILL, IN POWDERED SUBSTANCE, IS USUALLY MORE EFFECTIVE THAN ANY OF ITS PREPARATIONS; THEREFORE THE BEST FORM OF ADMINISTRATION IS BY PILL OR CAPSULE. WHEN THERE IS A FEEBLE CIRCULATION THE FOLLOWING IS ADVISABLE: RX PULV. SCILLAE; PULV. DIGITALIS, 10 GRAINS EACH. MAKE INTO PILULAE, NO. 10. SIG.: ONE PILL AFTER MEALS. SQUILL IS CONTRAINDICATED, EVEN IN DROPSY, BY A DRY, HOT SKIN, RAPID CIRCULATION, ELEVATED TEMPERATURE, OR ANY EVIDENCE OF RENAL IRRITATION OR INFLAMMATION. BUT THE GREATER THE ATONY OF THE GENERAL SYSTEM THE MORE SALUTARY ITS ACTION. IN DROPSY REQUIRING URGENT RELIEF TWO OR THREE GRAINS OF SQUILL MAY BE GIVEN EVERY THREE HOURS, WITHHOLDING THE MEDICINE UPON THE SLIGHTEST INDICATION OF NAUSEA. WHEN IT ACTS STRONGLY AS AN EXPECTORANT IT FREQUENTLY FAILS TO CAUSE INCREASED DIURESIS. NEITHER SHOULD IT BE EXPECTED TO CURE WHEN ANASARCA OR ASCITES IS CAUSED BY MALIGNANT DISEASE OR RENAL DESTRUCTION. LOCKE EMPLOYED FOR CARDIAC DROPSY, WITH FEEBLE HEART ACTION AND WEAK RAPID PULSE, TEASPOONFUL DOSES OF INFUSION OF DIGITALIS TO WHICH IS ADDED TWO (2) GRAINS OF SQUILL, OR ONE (1) DROP OF SPECIFIC MEDICINE SQUILL. SQUILL HAS BEEN QUITE GENERALLY USED BY SOME PHYSICIANS FOR SUBACUTE AND CHRONIC BRONCHITIS WHEN SECRETION IS SCANTY AND VISCID AND EXPECTORATED WITH DIFFICULTY, AND OPPOSITELY WHEN THE SECRETIONS ARE PROFUSE AND DEBILITATING. THE DOSAGE SHOULD BE REGULATED ACCORDING TO THE CONDITION, THE FULLER DOSES SHORT OF NAUSEA FOR THE FORMER, AND MINUTE DOSES FOR THE LATTER. THESE RESULTS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO ITS POWER TO REGULATE NORMAL EQUILIBRIUM IN THE BRONCHIAL MUCOSA. WHEN FEVER IS ABSENT AND THE SPUTUM SCANTY AND TENACIOUS, THE FOLLOWING IS USEFUL: RX SYR. SCILLAE, 1 FLUIDOUNCE; SYR. PRUNI VIRG., 3 FLUIDOUNCES. MIX. SIG.: ONE TEASPOONFUL FOUR (4) TIMES A DAY (LOCKE); AND IN CHRONIC BRONCHIAL CATARRH: RX SYR. SCILLAE, SYR. SENEGAE, 1 FLUIDOUNCE EACH, SYR. PRUNI VIRG., 2 FLUIDOUNCES. MIX. SIG.: ONE TEASPOONFUL EVERY THREE HOURS. SYRUP OF SQUILL HAS BEEN LARGELY USED AND IS STILL POPULAR IN THE DOMESTIC TREATMENT OF CROUP, PEOPLE LITTLE REALIZING THE DANGER INVITED. WE HAVE SEEN IT CAUSE CONVULSIONS AND PROSTRATION IN A YOUNG CHILD WHEN THUS EMPLOYED. IT HAS ALSO BEEN ADVISED BY PHYSICIANS FOR EMPHYSEMA. WHILE OF UNQUESTIONABLE VALUE IN BRONCHIAL AFFECTIONS, ONE MUST BE GUARDED IN ITS EMPLOYMENT LEST MORE DAMAGE BE DONE TO THE KIDNEYS THAN GOOD TO THE RESPIRATORY TRACT. SCOPARIUS. THE TOPS OF CYTISUS SCOPARIUS (LINNé), LINK (NAT. ORD. LEGUMINOSEAE). EUROPE AND FELTER’S MATERIA MEDICA - PAGE 404 THE UNITED STATES. CULTIVATED. DOSE, 5 TO 15 GRAINS. COMMON NAMES: BROOM, BROOM TOPS, IRISH BROOM. PRINCIPAL CONSTITUENTS.—THE VOLATILE, OILY, ALKALOID SPARTEINE, AND SCOPARIN, A DIURETIC AND PURGATIVE YELLOW COLORING BODY. PREPARATIONS.—1. INFUSUM SCOPARII, INFUSION OF SCOPARIUS. DOSE, 1 TO 2 FLUIDOUNCES. 2. DECOCTUM SCOPARII, DECOCTION OF SCOPARIUS (1/2 OUNCE TO WATER 16 FLUIDOUNCES, BOILED DOWN TO 8 FLUIDOUNCES). DOSE, 1 TO 2 FLUIDOUNCES. ACTION AND THERAPY.—EXCESSIVE DOSES OF BROOM HAVE PRODUCED IMPAIRED VISION, STAGGERING GAIT, AND PROFUSE VOMITING AND PURGING. THE EFFECTS OF BROOM ARE IN MILDER DEGREE PRACTICALLY THOSE OF ITS CHIEF ALKALOID, SPARTEINE. WHEN THE LATTER IS NOT DESIRABLE, AQUEOUS PREPARATIONS OF THE CRUDE DRUG MAY BE USED; AND INDEED, THEY OFTEN SUCCEED IN CAUSING PROFOUND DIURESIS WHEN THE ALKALOID FAILS. AS A HEART TONIC AND STIMULANT SPARTEINE SULPHATE SHOULD BE PREFERRED. INFUSION OF BROOM AND TO A GREATER DEGREE THE DECOCTION, IN DOSES OF ONE OUNCE EVERY THREE HOURS, ARE DECIDED AND CERTAIN DIURETICS FOR USE IN DROPSIES OF CARDIAC ORIGIN. THE ACTION OF SCOPARIN HAS NOT BEEN FULLY DETERMINED, BUT IS BELIEVED TO BE BOTH DIURETIC AND PURGATIVE. SOME BELIEVE IT TO BE THE REAL DIURETIC IN SCOPARIUS. SCUTELLARIA. 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. FELTER’S MATERIA MEDICA - PAGE 405 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.

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