Synopses & Reviews
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ALETRIN. Standard granule?Gr. 1-6, gm. 01. Aletrin is a concentration from the rhizome of aletris farinosa. This drug has been so generally confounded with helonias that the accounts of these two are worthless, and both must be restudied before their true place can be determined. Aletrin is a bitter tonic, devoid of tannic acid, and useful in atonic dyspepsias, vomiting of pregnancy, flatulence, borborygmi, wherever a mild nonirritant tonic is required. As to its use for dysmenorrhea and other affections of the female reproductive organs, it has a reputation that may be deserved. The dose of aletrin may be placed at gr. 1-6 to 1-2 before meals. For dysmenorrhea give gr. 1-6 every fifteen minutes in hot water till relief. ALNUIN. Standard granule?Gr. 1-12, gm. .005. Alnuin is a concentration from the bark of Alnus serrulata, the tag alder. The bark contains tannic acid, oils and a resin, the latter forming the bulk of alnuin. King says that this agent powerfully increases retrograde metamorphosis, and is tonic to the mucosa, aiding digestion and assimilation. It is catalytic and antiputrefactive. It increases the flow of gastric juice. It is alterative, emetic and astringent. The eclectics recommend alnuin in scrofula, glandular enlargements and suppurations, superficial diseases of the skin and mucosa as in eczema or pustular affections (Scudder), impetigo, herpes, prurigo, scurvy, scurf of the scalp in children, boils, passive hemorrhages, hematuria, purpura hemorrhagica, marasmus, mothers' sore mouth, indigestion and dyspepsia with deficient secretion of gastric juice and gastric motility, diarrheas attending the above gastric condition, leucorrhea, mammary indurations, hay fever (Ayer), gonorrhea and rhus poisoning. Where possible it should be employe...
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