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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    sede the blue pill and other preparations of mer- cury, the continued use of which has produced very serious disturbance of the brain and lungs in nervous subjects. In several cases of indigestion, attended with a high degree of general nervousness, palpitation of the heart, flying pains, considerable flatulence, ir- regular state of the bowels, frequent attacks of night-mare, unrefreshing sleep, distressing dreams, depression of spirits, the following mixture has produced the most tranquillizing effects, and greatly improved the general health :— Take of Decoction of Chirayita, seven ounces; Tincture of Musk Seeds, one ounce and a half. Dose, from three to four table-spoonsful three times a-day. One patient (a female) was about forty years of age, and of a spare habit. Her nervous system had been much shaken by mental distress. In cases of scrofula, particularly when the glands of the neck and of the mesentery are tumefied, of chronic or constitutional cough, and of pulmonary consumption, the decoction is taken alone, to the extent of a wine-glassful, three times a-day. When the cough is very trou- blesome, or the expectoration difficult, a tea- spoonful or two of the oxysyrup of the Lobelia Inflata may be added to each dose. The Chirayita Herb, in cases of obstruction of the liver, attended with morbid sensibility or