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Sunday, 02 July 2006 |
Treatment for Hysteria, Chronic Bronchitis
is a species met with in North west India, Persia, Smyrna and coasts of the Mediterranean. The gum-resin galbanum contains a volatile oil isomeric with turpentine, which contains no sulphur. It also contains a resin, a gum and an insoluble substance. It yields on dry distillation a blue oil and umbelliferon, a tasteless substance in satiny crystals. In action it is stimulant, expectorant and antispasmodic similar to Ammoniacum but less powerful than asaftida. In intestinal, vaginal
and uterine catarrh, in paralytic affections, hysteria, chronic bronchitis and asthma it is used in the form of pill. A compound pill consisting of galbanuin, asaffcida and myrrh 2 ounces each and treacle one ounce, prepared by heating all together by means of a water-bath and stirring the mass until it assumes a uniform consistence is valuable, especially in the dyspepsia of hysterical women. Externally it is used in the form af ointment, mixed with vinegar, it is a useful application œor acne. An ointment made of galbanum, sulphide of mercury, red oxide of lead and pure tin each 1 part and ten parts of gingelly oil is an excellent application over painful rheumatic joints. |
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