Tincture of Lobelia Inflata leaves

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Source: The family doctor : a dictionary of domestic medicine and surgery; especially adapted for family use (1890), narrative-offset-305174.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Lobelia Inflata leaves: an emetic now and then to clear out the phlegm from the bronchial passages ; take at bedtime 10 grains of Dover’s PoAvder, or the same of compound Squill Pill, Avith a little wami gruel

Method as extracted

1. Macerate according to the source passage: Tincture of Lobelia Inflata is good in obstinate cases, dose 1 drachm ; and also Tincture of Nicotiana, or Tobacco, in nauseating doses ; inhaling the. fumes of the leaves of this plant through a pipe, and also of Stramonium, is sometimes of service, and the good effect of either will be assisted by a cup of hot coffee, putting the feet in Avarm water, or using the Avarm bath. To prevent the return of a paroxysm of Asthma, avoid the exciting causes, keep the howels gently open Avith Ehubarb or some other mild aperient, and strengthen the tone of tlie stomach, by bitter infusions, such as Chamomile or Gentian ; if there is tight- ness of the chest, put on a blister, and take an emetic now and then to clear out the phlegm from the bronchial passages ; take at bedtime 10 grains of Dover’s PoAvder, or the same of compound Squill Pill, Avith a little wami gruel.

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