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Physician's Materia Medica on Nettle

HORSE NETTLE
   The fruit, also the root of SOLANUM CAROLINENsE, Lin. spasmodic, narcotic, diuretic. Useful particularly in epilepsy.1

NETTLEURTIC
   The root of URTICA DIOICA, Lin. Diuretic, antiscorbutic, hemo. static.1


References

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