WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Felter's Materia Medica on Cantharis
CANTHARIS
The dried beetles, Cantharis vesicatoria (Linné), De Geer. (Ord. Coleoptera.) Southern Europe. Dose, 1 grain. Common N......volatile oil are said to be the active or vesicating principles. Preparations1. Specific Medicine Cantharis. Dose, 1 to 10 drops. 2. Ceratum Cantharidis. Cantharides Cerate. (Blistering Cerate.) Epi......; teasing desire to urinate, accompanied with tenesmus. Action and Toxicology.Applied to the skin cantharis first reddens then slowly blisters. Its final action may be so intense as to cause sloughi...1
The dried beetles, Cantharis vesicatoria (Linné), De Geer. (Ord. Coleoptera.) Southern Europe. Dose, 1 grain. Common N......volatile oil are said to be the active or vesicating principles. Preparations1. Specific Medicine Cantharis. Dose, 1 to 10 drops. 2. Ceratum Cantharidis. Cantharides Cerate. (Blistering Cerate.) Epi......; teasing desire to urinate, accompanied with tenesmus. Action and Toxicology.Applied to the skin cantharis first reddens then slowly blisters. Its final action may be so intense as to cause sloughi...1
POLYMNIA
The root of Polymnia Uvedalia, Linné (Nat. Ord. Compositae). Central United States to Florida. Dose, 5 to 30 grains. Common Names: Uvedalia,... / ...Mix. Sig.: Rub thoroughly into the scalp once or twice a day. Howe added to this lotion Tincture of Cantharis, 2 fluidrachms, and Fowlers Solution of Arsenic, 2 fluidrachms. Uvedalia ointment may be... / ...above referred to. Large doses of polymnia are said to produce painful emeto-catharsis, gastro-intestinal inflammation, convulsions and death.1
The root of Polymnia Uvedalia, Linné (Nat. Ord. Compositae). Central United States to Florida. Dose, 5 to 30 grains. Common Names: Uvedalia,... / ...Mix. Sig.: Rub thoroughly into the scalp once or twice a day. Howe added to this lotion Tincture of Cantharis, 2 fluidrachms, and Fowlers Solution of Arsenic, 2 fluidrachms. Uvedalia ointment may be... / ...above referred to. Large doses of polymnia are said to produce painful emeto-catharsis, gastro-intestinal inflammation, convulsions and death.1
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Physician's Materia Medica on Cantharis
CANTHARIDES
The insect CANTHARIS VESICATORIA, DeGeer. Internally irri tant and stimulant to urinary organs, aphrodisiac. alterative. In over doses distressingly poisonous. Externally irritant, epispastic.2
The insect CANTHARIS VESICATORIA, DeGeer. Internally irri tant and stimulant to urinary organs, aphrodisiac. alterative. In over doses distressingly poisonous. Externally irritant, epispastic.2
References
1) Felter, Harvey Wickes, 1922, The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.
2) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.