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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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

FRANCISCEA
   ...felsia (Franciscea) uniflora, Pohl (Nat. Ord. Solanaceae). A tropical American shrub. Common Names: Manaca, Vegetable Mercury. Principal Constituents.—A weak alkaloid manacine, and probably gelsemic ......long the Amazon for rheumatism and syphilis. It is capable of producing gastro-enteritis and death. Manaca has been proposed for rheumatism confined more to the muscles and tendons than to the articul...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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Manaca

MANACABRUN4
   The root of BRUNFELSIA HOPEANA, (Hook.) Benth. Emeto: cathartic, diaphoretic, diuretic, alterative, antisyphilitic, antiarthritic. Prescribed chiefly in rheumatism.2


WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Therapeutics Memoranda on Manaca

RHEUMATISM, ARTICULAR
   Acute attacks call for aconite as a cardiac sedative with one of the following antiarthritic... / ...iodide is the leading remedy, potassium bicarbonate being an alter. native. Vegetable remedies of importance are black cohosh. rhus toxieodendrou and manaca. Locally, apply alkaline solutions (sodium bicarbonate, sodium salicylate, of each 20 grs. to the oz.)or ointments of ichthyol or salicyl ic ac...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.