Drug
Medicines can treat diseases and improve your health. If you are like most people, you need to take medicine at some point in your life. You may need to take medicine every day, or you may only need to take medicine once in a while. Either way, you want to make sure that your medicines are safe, and that they will help you get better. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration is in charge of ensuring that your prescription and over-the-counter medicines are safe and effective.
There are always risks to taking medicines. It is important to think about these risks before you take a medicine. Even safe medicines can cause unwanted side effects or interactions with food, alcohol, or other medicines you may be taking. Some medicines may not be safe during pregnancy. To reduce the risk of reactions and make sure that you get better, it is important for you to take your medicines correctly. You should also be careful when giving medicines to children, since they can be more vulnerable to the effects of medicines.
Physician's Materia Medica on Drug
Powerful astringent. Employed locally as a styptic; internally sometimes prescribed in diarrhea, but more commonly drugs rich in Tannin such as Blackberry or Rhatany are used. Dose, 0.12 to 0.6 Grm. (2 to 10 grs.). Ointment Tannic Acid, U. S. P., (87% grs. to the ounce). Used especially in hemorrhoids. Glycerite Tannic Acid, U. S. P. (87% grs. to the ounce). Used as application to throat in relaxed condition, also locally in chronic coryza and ozena, and in certain cutaneous diseases. as eczema,1
The active principle of Aloes, preferable to the crude drug be cause nearly free from odor and much less disagreeable in taste. Dose as a laxative, 0.015 to 0.03 Grm. (% to % .gr.); as a cathartic, 0.06 to 0.13 Grm. (1 to 2 grs.).1
The dried uuripe fruit of PIPER NIGRUM, L. Local and general stimulant and irritant, antiperiodic, stomachic, carminative. Used in malarial fevers, in flatulency and colic, etc. PI PERIN, which was formerly believed to be the active principle of the drug and prescribed in doses of 0.06 to 0.6 (1 to 10 grs.) as an antiperiodic, is new little used.1
A preparation from the fruit of ECBALLIUM ELATERIUM, (Lin.) A. Rich. A prompt and powerful hydragogue cathartic, used chiefly for removal of dropsical effusions. The active principle elaterin is to be preferred to the crude drug as more uniform in activity. Dose of Elaterium, 0.006 to 0.02 Grm. (1-10 to 1-3 gr.), of Elaterin; 0.0016 to 0.004 Grm. (1-40 to 1-15 gr.).1
Alkaloid found in many mydriatic drugs; closely related to Atropine and isomeric with that alkaloid. Dose, 0.0003 to’ 0.0015 (1-200 to 1-40 gr.). b. iron Hypophosphite (Ferrous or Ferric). Hematic tonic as well as nerve food. Dose, 0.03 to 0.30 Grm. (1/2 to 5 grs.).1
The seeds of SrnYCrmos NUX-VOMICA. Lin. A tetanizing pois on; a powerful stimulant to spinal nerve centers. Prescribed often with laxatives in chronic constipation to stimulate peristaltic action; more used than any other tonic in nervous debility, associated often with iron and quinine. The active principle, Strychnine, q. v., is largely used in preference to preparations of the crude drug.1
The leaves and tops of TANACETUM VULGARE, Lin. Emmena gogue, anthelmintic. carminative, antiperiodic. Used in flatulent dyspepsia and in hysteria; in domestic practice as a vermiiuge and especially as an emmenagoirue. The essential oil, which represents the activity of the drug as an emmenagogue, is given in doses of 0.05 to 0.25 c. c. (1 to 4 M).1
A mixture of drugs formerly imported from Samoa and believed to be of value in neuralgia. It has fallen into complete disuse and is no longer imported.1
A combination remarkable for its diaphoretic action. which surpasses that of any single drug, Pilocarpus only excepted. Made in accordance with the National Formulary, each fluidounce represents; Rhubarb, 3 1/2 grs.; Angelica seed, 3 1/2 grs-; Elecampane. 1 3/4 grs.; Saffron, 1 3/4 grs.; Fennel, 1 3/4 grs.; Gentian, 7/8 gr.; Zedoary root, 7/8 gr.; Cubeb, 7/8 gr.; Myrrh, 7/8 gr.; White Agaric. 7/8 gr.; Camphor, 7/8 gr.; Quinine Sulphate, 10 grs.; Extract Aloes, 8 grs. The Tincture is often speci1