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* Infusions, Concentrated (105): of Cloves, Calumbo, Cascarilla, Chamomile, Gentian, Orange Peel, Quassia, Rhubarb, Roses, and Senna. Use of concentrated infusions allow for large doses of medicines to be administered, therefore, these medicines are well designed for medicine chests, and can be diluted depending on the required treatment. | * Infusions, Concentrated (105): of Cloves, Calumbo, Cascarilla, Chamomile, Gentian, Orange Peel, Quassia, Rhubarb, Roses, and Senna. Use of concentrated infusions allow for large doses of medicines to be administered, therefore, these medicines are well designed for medicine chests, and can be diluted depending on the required treatment. | ||
* Tincture of Cascarilla (157): "exhibited in the debility of the bowels and stomach," also used in the place of Peruvian bark when PB acts as a purgative. | * Tincture of Cascarilla (157): "exhibited in the debility of the bowels and stomach," also used in the place of Peruvian bark when PB acts as a purgative. | ||
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| + | * Dysentery (249): used in the early stages of the disease, (can be replaced with the use of other barks), during the third stage of treatment that involves restoring and toning the intestines. | ||
| + | * Dyspepsia, or Indigestion (265): Abernethy's mixture contains an infusion of cascarilla, and to be taken before and after dinner. | ||
| + | * Sickness (276): infusions of Cascarilla can be used when "sickness proceeds from a chronic debility of the stomach" | ||
Revision as of 15:06, 13 April 2016
Contents
Description
A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865
page numbers come from the pdf file, not actual document
Bark, Cascarilla
Carminative (reduces gas) and tonic. When combined with Peruvian bark (cinchona) it can make PB more agreeable to the stomach, and increased the properties of PB. As a tincture used as a vehicle for preparations including iron, bismuth, other metallic tonics.
Treats: dyspepsia, flatulent colic, dysentery, diarrhoea, gangrenous thrush (esp in children).
(CDM 50)
Remedies Containing or to be used with Cascarilla Listed in CDM1865
- Infusions, Concentrated (105): of Cloves, Calumbo, Cascarilla, Chamomile, Gentian, Orange Peel, Quassia, Rhubarb, Roses, and Senna. Use of concentrated infusions allow for large doses of medicines to be administered, therefore, these medicines are well designed for medicine chests, and can be diluted depending on the required treatment.
- Tincture of Cascarilla (157): "exhibited in the debility of the bowels and stomach," also used in the place of Peruvian bark when PB acts as a purgative.
Diseases Treated with Aloes as listed in CDM1865
- Dysentery (249): used in the early stages of the disease, (can be replaced with the use of other barks), during the third stage of treatment that involves restoring and toning the intestines.
- Dyspepsia, or Indigestion (265): Abernethy's mixture contains an infusion of cascarilla, and to be taken before and after dinner.
- Sickness (276): infusions of Cascarilla can be used when "sickness proceeds from a chronic debility of the stomach"