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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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

POPULUS TREMULOIDES
   The bark of the Populus tremuloides, Michaux (Nat. Ord. Salicaceae). Lower Canada and northern and middle United States. Dose, 1 to 30 grains. Common Names: American Poplar, American Aspen,... / The bark of the Populus tremuloides, Michaux (Nat. Ord. Salicaceae). Lower Canada and northern and middle United Sta... / ...following urination. Owing to the salicin and populin present it has had a considerable reputation in malarial fevers and should be more generally employed as a postfebrile tonic.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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Populus Tremuloides

WHITE POPLARPOAL7
   The bark of POPULUS TREMULOIDES, Lin. Bitter tonic. sto machic, febrifuge. antiperiodic, antiseptic. Used in malarial fevers, in chronic diarrhea and in various urinary affections.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.