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Historical use wording: dropsy
Source: The Dispensatory of the United States of America by Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879 (1843), materia-586-1.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Resina: Both the berries and the expressed juice are actively purgative; but, as they are apt to occasion nausea, and severe griping pain in the bowels, with much thirst and dryness of the mouth and throat, they are now little employed. ‘They formerly enjoyed considerable reputation as a hydragogue cathartic in dropsy; and were given also in rheumatism and gout. ‘The only shape in which they are used in this country is that
Method as extracted
- Mix according to the source passage: Both the berries and the expressed juice are actively purgative; but, as they are apt to occasion nausea, and severe griping pain in the bowels, with much thirst and dryness of the mouth and throat, they are now little employed. ‘They formerly enjoyed considerable reputation as a hydragogue cathartic in dropsy; and were given also in rheumatism and gout. ‘The only shape in which they are used in this country is that of the syrup, which is sometimes, though rarely, added to hydragogue or diuretic mixtures. (See Syrupus Rhamni.) ‘The dose of the recent berries is about a scruple, of the dried berries a drachm, and of the expressed juice a fluidounce.
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Primary and supporting references
- The Dispensatory of the United States of America — The Dispensatory of the United States of AmericaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at materia-586-1.