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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only.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 Night-blooming Cereus (cactus Grandlflora)

NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS (Cactus Grandlflora)
   The flowers and fleshy stems of CEREUS GRANDIFLORUS, (L.) Mill. Cardiac sedative and tonic, indirectly diuretic. Used chiéfly to control irregularity of action in the heart.1


References

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