WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Pelletierine
GRANATUM
   ...itudes. Dose, 30 grains. Common Names: Pomegranate, Pomegranate Root Bark. Principal Constituents.—Pelletierine or punicine (1/2 per cent), methyl-, pseudo-, and isopelletierine, all alkaloids, and p......ierine, all alkaloids, and punico-tannic acid (20 per cent). Preparations.-1. Pelletierinae Tannas, Pelletierine Tannate. (Contains in varying proportions, in admixture, the four alkaloids mentioned a...... easily, but has far less effect upon other intestinal parasites. The associated alkaloids, sold as pelletierine, constitute an exceedingly active combination, capable of producing paralysis of the m...1
   ...itudes. Dose, 30 grains. Common Names: Pomegranate, Pomegranate Root Bark. Principal Constituents.—Pelletierine or punicine (1/2 per cent), methyl-, pseudo-, and isopelletierine, all alkaloids, and p......ierine, all alkaloids, and punico-tannic acid (20 per cent). Preparations.-1. Pelletierinae Tannas, Pelletierine Tannate. (Contains in varying proportions, in admixture, the four alkaloids mentioned a...... easily, but has far less effect upon other intestinal parasites. The associated alkaloids, sold as pelletierine, constitute an exceedingly active combination, capable of producing paralysis of the m...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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Pelletierine
PELLETIERINE
   Alkaloid obtained from POMEGRANATE, q. v. An emcient teni cide. The salt most used is the Tannate. Ordinary dose, 0.3 Grm. (5 grs.}, to be followed in two hours by a purge. [Much larger doses, up to 1.3 and 1.5 Grm. (20 and 24 grs.) are recommended by some, but serious effects have followed the use of such doses].2
   Alkaloid obtained from POMEGRANATE, q. v. An emcient teni cide. The salt most used is the Tannate. Ordinary dose, 0.3 Grm. (5 grs.}, to be followed in two hours by a purge. [Much larger doses, up to 1.3 and 1.5 Grm. (20 and 24 grs.) are recommended by some, but serious effects have followed the use of such doses].2
POMEGRANATE (Granatum)PUNIC
   The bark of the root of PUNICA GRANATUM, Lin. Astringent. anthelmintic. tenicide. Formerly used in diarrhea and colliquative sweats. Now almost exclusively employed as a remedy for tape worm. preferably in the form of a salt of Pelletierine, q. v.2
   The bark of the root of PUNICA GRANATUM, Lin. Astringent. anthelmintic. tenicide. Formerly used in diarrhea and colliquative sweats. Now almost exclusively employed as a remedy for tape worm. preferably in the form of a salt of Pelletierine, q. v.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 Pelletierine
TAPE-WORM
   The most eficient remedies are pomegranate bark, best the active principle, pelletierine; pumpkin seeds, given in an emulsion, and male fern. especially the oleoresin. This last should be followed by a purgative dose of calomel—not, in any case by castor oil.2
   The most eficient remedies are pomegranate bark, best the active principle, pelletierine; pumpkin seeds, given in an emulsion, and male fern. especially the oleoresin. This last should be followed by a purgative dose of calomel—not, in any case by castor oil.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.
