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Naregamia Alata, belonging to genus
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Sunday, 02 July 2006 |
Treatment for Bronchitis, dysentery
is a small woody shrub growing in Western and Southern India. The drug i, e. the root and stems divested of their leaves have emetic properties, like those of ipecacuanha, generally employed in doses of from 12 to 20 grains. It is used in same doses as a remedy in acute dysentery. It contains an alkaloid " Narigamine an amorphous residue of a brittle con-sistence. It forms crystalline salts with mineral acids and thus differs from emetine and also differs from it in not giving any colour with chlorinated lime and acetic acid. The bark of root also contains wax, gum, aspara-gine, starch, but no tannin. The drug has recently been tried in small doses with considerable success as an expectorant, in chronic forms of bronchitis, where there is a thick, scanty and tenacious expectoration, and in bronchial catarrh with asthmatic tendencies and heart difficulty. The dose of the fluid extract is from 5 to 20 minims as an alterative and expectorant and from 15 to 40 minims as an emetic. The juice of the plant mixed with cocoanut oil is used in cases of psora.
Narthex Asafoetida.----See Ferula Asafoetida. |
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