Pink Root
From London's Ghost Acres
AKA Indian Pink
A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865
Small entry in CDM, but is noted as an anthelmintic (antiparasitic), esp regarding lumbrici (roundworms).
Can have a narcotic effect, mostly notes for vermifuge, but sometimes has sometimes been useful treating intermittent fevers. (105)
Botanical.com
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/pinkro39.html
can have some serious side-effects:
"disturbed vision, dizziness, muscular spasms, twitching eyelids, increased action of the heart. In large doses, these are increased, both circulation and respiration being depressed and loss of muscular power caused, and cases have been known resulting, in children, in death from convulsions"
no other mention of it in CDM or in Pharmacopoeia :(