Castor Plant
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Physician's Materia Medica on Castor Plant
CASTOR PLANT
The seed and leaves of RICINUs cOMmUNIs. &An., also the oil ex pressed from the seeds. The leaves are reputed emmenagogue and galactagogue. The seeds are actively cathartic. Castor Oil is one of the most useful of all cathartics owing to the absence of irritant action in its operation. It is used especially to unload the bowels when indigestible matters have been taken into the stomach. Dose of castor oil for an infant, 4 to 8 c. c. (1 or 2 fluidrachms); for an adult 8 to 15 c. c. (1/2 to 1 flui1
The seed and leaves of RICINUs cOMmUNIs. &An., also the oil ex pressed from the seeds. The leaves are reputed emmenagogue and galactagogue. The seeds are actively cathartic. Castor Oil is one of the most useful of all cathartics owing to the absence of irritant action in its operation. It is used especially to unload the bowels when indigestible matters have been taken into the stomach. Dose of castor oil for an infant, 4 to 8 c. c. (1 or 2 fluidrachms); for an adult 8 to 15 c. c. (1/2 to 1 flui1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.