ERIGERON CANADENSE; E-Viscosum.

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Treatment for Typhoid Fever Eng,----Canada Fleabane; Squaw Weed. (Eri,----early and geron----hoary, aged old man alluding to the early aged appearance of the plant before spring. Fleabane is in allusion to the supposed property of the plant to destroy fleas), Large bundles of this plant soaked in milk are suspended in the rooms to allurd flies to their destruction-Squaw weed is termed from the weed having a special action upon the uterus. Habitat.----Common in all warm countries----Western Himalaya, Punjab, Kashmir. Parts Used The volatile oil distilled from fresh flowering herb (oil of Pleabane.) Constituents.----A volatile oil, bitter extractive principle and tannin. (Oleum Erigerontis is obtained by distillation. The oil is a pale yellow liquid becoming darker and thicker by age of a peculiar aroma and persistent terebinthinate odour of neutral re-action readily soluble in alcohol). Action & Uses.----The drug owes its virtues to the volatile oil. It acts like turpentine, but is less irritating and less efficient. It has a special action as a h‘mostatic on the uterus and the intestines and is of special value in uterine haemorrhage, monorrhagia, intestinal haemorrhage of passive form and typhoid fever. It is also given in cystitis, calculus etc., and in bronchial catarrh and haemoptysis without fever. Dose of the oil is from 5 to 10 minims. It has the effect of cheeking the waste of albumen.

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