A practical treatise on the anti-asthmatic properties of the bladder-podded lobelia ... with instructions as to diet, exercise, &C. ... to which is added, an account of the chirayita herb / by Richard Reece.

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831.
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: A practical treatise on the anti-asthmatic properties of the bladder-podded lobelia ... with instructions as to diet, exercise, &C. ... to which is added, an account of the chirayita herb / by Richard Reece. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE CHIRAYITA, OR CHERRATTAH HERB. Although the CMrayita Herb (by some termed Cherrattah) has been held from time im- memorial in great estimation, as a stomachic, deobstruent, and anti-scrofulous medicine, by the natives of Bengal, and for the last fifty years by the European medical officers settled in different parts of the East Indies, it has only been lately introduced into the practice of this country. Among the most eminent practitioners who have given it an extensive trial, and who highly extol it, may be noticed Dr. Fleming, Dr. Dick, Dr. Ainslie, and Dr. Hamilton, late of the Bengal Presidency; and Dr. Blundell, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Kinglake, Dr. Sully, Mr. Churchill, Mr. Addison, and Mr. Baker, of England. It is not only a most valuable stomachic or tonic medicine, but it evidently deterges the abdominal viscera, and on this account its benefical effects are gene- rally permanent. It corrects the secretion of bile, as is evident by the healthy bilious appearance