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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Hemlock Spruce

ABIES (Tsuga canadensis)TSCA
   The bark and prepared resinous exudate of Tsuga canadensis, Carriére (Abies canadensis, Michaux; Pinus canadensis, Linné). (Nat. Ord.... / ...andsome evergreen, tree of the forests of Northern United States and Canada. Common Names: Hemlock, Hemlock Spruce. Principal Constituents.—The oleoresin Canada pitch, and a volatile oil known as Oil... / ...be used where there is excessive secretion of mucus and the cough is largely precipitated by a feeble and relaxed state of the uvula and fauces. 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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Hemlock Spruce

HEMLOCK SPRUCE
   The bark of TSUGA CANADENSIS, (L.) Carr. Astringent, hemo static. Locally applied in relaxed conditions of the vagina or rectum, gangrenous wounds, unhealthy ulcers, etc,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.