WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Golden Seal
HYDRASTISHYDRA2
The dried rhizome and roots of Hydrastis canadensis, Linné (Nat. Ord. Ranunculaceae) United States... / ...nd Canada in rich, shady woods. (Chiefly Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia.) Common Names: Golden Seal, Yellow Root, Yellow Puccoon, Orange Root. Principal Constituents.Three alkaloids: ber... / ...The preparation preferred is the colorless, though other hydrastis preparations, particularly berberine and hydrastin salts are useful, b1
The dried rhizome and roots of Hydrastis canadensis, Linné (Nat. Ord. Ranunculaceae) United States... / ...nd Canada in rich, shady woods. (Chiefly Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia.) Common Names: Golden Seal, Yellow Root, Yellow Puccoon, Orange Root. Principal Constituents.Three alkaloids: ber... / ...The preparation preferred is the colorless, though other hydrastis preparations, particularly berberine and hydrastin salts are useful, b1
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Golden Seal
GOLDEN SEAL
The rhizome of HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS; Lin. Tonic, alterative to mucous membranes, uterine hemostatic. hepatic stimulant and aperient. Used much in dyspeptic troubles, in mt-norrhagia and dysmenorrhea, and for its local effect in canker of the mouth, ulcerat ed sore throat, fissures of the nipple, hemorrhoids as well as in con junctivitis. leucorrhea and especially in gonorrhea. The yellow alka loid Berberim, q. v. is simply tonic and perhaps antiperiodic. The white alkaloid flydrastine, q. v. is 2
The rhizome of HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS; Lin. Tonic, alterative to mucous membranes, uterine hemostatic. hepatic stimulant and aperient. Used much in dyspeptic troubles, in mt-norrhagia and dysmenorrhea, and for its local effect in canker of the mouth, ulcerat ed sore throat, fissures of the nipple, hemorrhoids as well as in con junctivitis. leucorrhea and especially in gonorrhea. The yellow alka loid Berberim, q. v. is simply tonic and perhaps antiperiodic. The white alkaloid flydrastine, q. v. is 2
HYDRASTINE
An alkaloid obtained from GOLDEN SEAL, q. v. The medicinal activity of Golden-seal seems to reside chiefly in this alkaloid which is a valuable remedy in catarrhal affections of the mucous mem branes, and as a uterine hemostatic. Dose, 0.008 to 0.03 Grm. (1/8 to 1/2 grs.).2
An alkaloid obtained from GOLDEN SEAL, q. v. The medicinal activity of Golden-seal seems to reside chiefly in this alkaloid which is a valuable remedy in catarrhal affections of the mucous mem branes, and as a uterine hemostatic. Dose, 0.008 to 0.03 Grm. (1/8 to 1/2 grs.).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.