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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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

Physician's Materia Medica on Five-flowered Gentian

FIVE-FLOWERED GENTIAN
   The flowering herb of GENTIANA QUINQUEFOLI.-L Lin. Bitter tonic. antiperiodic, reputed cholagogue. Used in chronic hepatic disorders and in malarial poisoning.1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.